Whatsapp University is the best place for this type of learning. Interestingly, most of it is ridiculous for many people. Yet, many of us get trapped in believing some theories based on confirmation bias due to our conditioning.' Downloading' listening is at play when it comes to selective learning. For example, one school friend shared how several inventions happened in his village many centuries ago, even before the science world knew about those. He had articles, charts and images to tell that story. However, there might be some truth in those stories, but most of it was created by conveniently ignoring scientific pieces of evidence.
These theories are made based on the confirmation bias of both the teacher and the students. Once such groups come together, they create echo chambers. A self-fulfilling prophecy. Social media platforms enable such learnings.
This explanation of 'good explanations' by David Deutsch(Physicist) can be an excellent test to identify and see through selective listening :
"All our knowledge of the universe consists of explanations that work. 'Good explanations' are hard to vary in the sense that changing the details would ruin the explanation. If an explanation can easily explain anything in a given field, then it actually explains nothing. For most of the history of our species, we had almost no success in creating such good explanations. Most good explanations have been generated since the Enlightenment, which began a culture of the criticism and debate of existing ideas."
Tactic: Catch yourself every time you enter such echo chambers.
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