You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and I'm

I'm your host Thomas Smith.

Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries only.

This is episode number five and I'm your host Thomas Smith.

All right, got an excellent interview for you today and I have to say I have to confess it's

maybe not going to be the most optimistic and encouraging of

interviews. You may have seen somewhat recently, actually this came out around

the election but is still in the news. There was a Stanford study done saying most students don't know when news is fake and that's so heartbreaking to hear because we're already having a big enough problem as it is with fake news and with just

information reliability in general and to hear that kids and students aren't any better

necessarily than adults are is a little discouraging.

So to talk about these results is Dr. Joel Breakstone.

He's the director of the Stanford History Education Group

and that was the group that put on the study.

I'm amazed by the fortuitous timing of it,

and I don't think it was merely luck,

I'm sure they were catching on a trend ahead of time.

And I think that's really cool.

So I'm going to talk to him about the study.

You'll learn what was done, what tests were done, and what the results look like.

So let's find out more about this study. Joining me right now is Joel Breakstone,

joining me right now is Joel Breakstone, director of the Stanford History Education Group.

How you doing, Joel?

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