{"id":1154,"date":"2014-06-12T17:22:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T17:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2014-06-12T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T17:22:54","slug":"sharpening-and-leveling-in-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/2014\/06\/12\/sharpening-and-leveling-in-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharpening and Leveling in Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2014\/06\/justified.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1155\" alt=\"justified\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2014\/06\/justified-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2014\/06\/justified-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/files\/2014\/06\/justified.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I was invited by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OklahomaSkepticalSociety\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma Skeptics Society<\/a> to speak at their monthly Skeptics in the Pub meeting for June. I decided to give a talk titled &#8220;Sharpening &amp; Leveling: How good communication can lead you away from the truth.&#8221; It focused on how, in order for our communication to be considered justified and worthy, we often heighten certain aspects of information and drop out other aspects. The <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/sinergy\/2014\/06\/12\/gps-at-sitp\/\" target=\"_blank\">full audio and slides<\/a> are below, thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/06\/10\/skeptics-in-the-pub-formerly-known-as-galileos\/\" target=\"_blank\">ever wonderful Damion<\/a> for recording and putting this together.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Caleb Lack SitP OKC (full video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d5Pwg6ZCofM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which you can listen to my talk on how good storytellers are often really bad at giving accurate information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12,14],"tags":[568,567,564,566,563,562,565],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outreach-2","category-psychology","category-skepticism","tag-accurate","tag-bad","tag-communication","tag-good","tag-leveling","tag-sharpening","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/gps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}