You Are What You Read Quotes

“Erving Goffman, arguably one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, called this the ‘schemata of interpretation’, which is a framework used to transform meaningless”
― Jodie Jackson, You Are What You Read: Why changing your media diet can change the world

“Hans Rosling, a Swedish statistician and renowned public speaker, founded an organisation called Gapminder with his son Ola Rosling and Ola’s wife Anna, which addresses the negative news bias. In Hans’ inspiring and insightful TED Talk ‘The best stats you’ve ever seen’, he shares the results of an original study he conducted among Swedish university students called ‘the chimpanzee test’.10”
― Jodie Jackson, You Are What You Read: Why changing your media diet can change the world

“A good demonstration of this is the ‘Gandhi experiment’, which was conducted by Fritz Strack and Thomas Mussweiler,”
― Jodie Jackson, You Are What You Read: Why changing your media diet can change the world

“This is because our brain is biased towards the first piece of information we are presented with; this is known in psychology as the anchoring effect. Psychologists have known for years that how we are introduced to a subject will colour how we then think of it and process subsequent information about it.”
― Jodie Jackson, You Are What You Read: Why changing your media diet can change the world

“21 September 2016, as well as the Telegraph, the Metro and the Independent: CUDDLING YOUR KITTEN COULD KILL YOU”
― Jodie Jackson, You Are What You Read: Why changing your media diet can change the world

“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed. — Mark Twain”
― Jodie Jackson, You Are What You Read: Why changing your media diet can change the world

“Thomas Jefferson, the third US president and leading author of the Declaration of Independence, said, ‘The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Jodie Jackson, You Are What You Read: Why changing your media diet can change the world