We don't have a "misinformation" problem. We have a miseducation problem. People don't know what a fact is, and they don't know what to do with a fact even when one is handed to them. So they end up needing other people to *tell* them what to think and that's extremely dangerous.

Framing the issue as a problem of "misinformation" plays into the idea that people ought to passively receive facts, and so the main problem is controlling what facts they're being fed. This turns public sense-making into a PR battle where might literally makes "right".

We need more of the kind of education that puts people in a position to do the work of figuring out what's true or false on their own, regardless of what they're being told. People need to know *how* to think much more than they need to know *what* to think.

That's why I use my twitter presence to teach people about statistics which, in my opinion, is just critical thinking with numbers. (I also try to make it fun.) If that's your thing, feel free to follow. 🙂