Filter It Through a Brain Cell
Can you recognize bad thinking, manipulative advertising and tricky arguments when you see them?
How about your kids - how will they know whether the memes they're seeing on social media are really true?
Critical thinking is the most important skill you can have when you’re living in a world that seems to have lost its mind.
Everyone out there is trying to tell you WHAT to think, I want to teach you HOW to think!
In every episode, I’m exposing the logical fallacies & cognitive biases being used by advertisers, politicians, influencers, news outlets, social media memes, and maybe even your own best friend.
Warning: listening to this podcast will cause you to see bad thinking everywhere!
Welcome to the Filter It Through a Brain Cell Podcast!
I'm a homeschooling mama who realized we need to equip the next generation to be able to discern truth from lies and created this podcast with short, fun episodes that you can play in the car with your teens and have a fun discussion about what you've learned!
NOTE: While you're certainly welcome to listen to this podcast in any order, I recommend listening in sequential order starting with Episode 1. I think you'll get more out of it that way!
Critical Thinking for teens
Homeschool curriculum
Podcast for teens
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 9 minutes
- Episodes
- 309
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
209. Can you name this fallacy?
Let's have some fun! A listener sent in an ad she heard recently...can you figure out the fallacy in it?
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Want to test yourself on …
208. Data Dredging: Statistical Fallacy Miniseries #9
People use numbers to convince, persuade, and even sometimes to manipulate or fool others. This mini-series will help you recognize them!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled …
207. Self-Selection Bias: Statistical Fallacy Miniseries #8
People use numbers to convince, persuade, and even sometimes to manipulate or fool others. This mini-series will help you recognize them!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled …
206. Regression to the Mean : Statistical Fallacies Miniseries #7
People use numbers to convince, persuade, and even sometimes to manipulate or fool others. This mini-series will help you recognize them!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled …
205. Survivorship Bias: Statistical Fallacies Miniseries #6
People use numbers to convince, persuade, and even sometimes to manipulate or fool others. This mini-series will help you recognize them!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled …
204. Base Rate Fallacy: Statistical Fallacies Miniseries #5
People use numbers to convince, persuade, and even sometimes to manipulate or fool others. This mini-series will help you recognize them!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled …
203. The Ecological Fallacy: Statistical Fallacies Miniseries #4
People use numbers to convince, persuade, and even sometimes to manipulate or fool others. This mini-series will help you recognize them!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled …
202. The Confounding Variable: Statistical Fallacies Miniseries #3
People use numbers to convince, persuade, and even sometimes to manipulate or fool others. This mini-series will help you recognize them!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled …
201. Simpson’s Paradox: Statistical Fallacies Miniseries #2
People use numbers to convince, persuade, and even sometimes to manipulate or fool others. This mini-series will help you recognize them!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled …
200. The Misuse of Averages: Statistical Fallacies Miniseries #1
People use numbers to convince, persuade, and even sometimes to manipulate or fool others. This mini-series will help you recognize them!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled …
199. How to Think About Conspiracy Theories: Part 2
Whether you're a full-fledged Conspiracy Theory lover, Conspiracy-curious or flat-out think they're cray-cray, this is part 2 of How to Think About Conspiracy Theories.
When you can recognize the foo…
198. How to Think About Conspiracy Theories: Part 1 with Connor Boyack
Whether you're a full-fledged Conspiracy Theory lover, Conspiracy-curious or flat-out think they're cray-cray, this is part 1 of How to Think About Conspiracy Theories.
When you can recognize the foo…
197. Self-Refuting Statement - Propaganda Tactics Miniseries #15
What's wrong with this statement: "This statement is false." ?
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Learn more about Crazy Thinkers: www.filteritthroughabraincell.com/…
196. Quote Mining - Propaganda Tactics Miniseries #14
Have you ever had someone take something you said out of context? No cool, huh? It happens a lot, and sometimes people do it on purpose to make it sound like someone said something they didn't.
When …
195. Baseless, False & Misleading Claims - Propaganda Tactics Miniseries #13
What's the difference between a claim that is baseless, false and misleading?
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Learn more about Crazy Thinkers: www.filteritthroug…
194. Hypnotic Bait & Switch - Propaganda Tactics Miniseries #12
Watch out when someone gets you agreeing to several simple things, then slips in another statement that they WANT you to agree with .
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by i…
193. Labels, Slogans & Virtue Words - Propaganda Tactics Miniseries #11
These are just some of the ways people use language to evoke emotion or get compliance.
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Learn more about Crazy Thinkers: www.filte…
192. Hyperbole - Propaganda Tactics Miniseries #10
Figures of speech are a normal part of our daily speech, and we typically don't take them literally...but sometimes people WANT you to take them literally.
When you can recognize the foolishness, you…
191. Fault as Virtue - Propaganda Tactics Miniseries #9
Have you ever had someone try to convince you that a character flaw is actually a good thing? Don't fall for it.
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Learn more about …
190. Dysphemism & Euphemism- Propaganda Tactics Miniseries #8
Words matter & sometimes people use specific words to make something seem better or worse than it actually is.
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
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