We watched the movie Pressure over the weekend. It’s about two meteorologists during WWII who delivered starkly conflicting weather forecasts to General Dwight Eisenhower (played by Brendan Fraser) 72 hours before the D-Day invasion. The weather needed to be right for the planned invasion. Allied forces needed certain tides and illumination of the moon (amphibious troops) and good visibility and acceptable wind and cloud ceilings for air operations.
I won’t spoil the film–or maybe I already have– but it’s about following the clinical data versus allowing emotion to influence decision-making. Facts and data, even if they’re known, can easily be overlooked by an emotional, want-it-to-be-true narrative.
I bring up the film up as a reminder to slow down in your social feeds and question the political information you input into your brains. Be active news and information consumers, not passive ones who assume anything and everything is true.
I’m teaching an online public course (90 minutes) on specific things we call can do to not be fooled by those who want to manipulate and fool us in politics.
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