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Fake Journal Club: Teaching Critical Reading · Gwern.net

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Discussion of how to teach active reading and questioning of scientific research. Partially fake research papers may teach a critical attitude. Various ideas for games reviewed. GPT non-fiction, typography, epistemology, statistics How do re­searchers tran­si­tion from un­crit­i­cally ab­sorb­ing re­search pa­pers or ar­gu­ments to ac­tively grap­pling with it and ques­tion­ing it? Most learn this meta-cognitive skill in­for­mally or by ad hoc mech­a­nisms like being tu­tored by a men­tor, or watch­ing oth­ers cri­tique pa­pers at a ‘jour­nal club’. This patch­work may not al­ways work or be the best ap­proach, as it is slow and largely im­plicit, and sim­i­lar to cal­i­bra­tion train­ing in sta­tis­ti­cal fore­cast­ing, tar­geted train­ing may be able to teach it rapidly. To teach this ac­tive read­ing at­ti­tude of not be­liev­ing every­thing you read, I bor­row the ped­a­gog­i­cal strat­egy of de­lib­er­ately in­sert­ing er­rors which the stu­dent must de­tect, propos­ing fake re­se

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