#procon.org

[educationworld-blog]

ProCon.org can help with classroom debates, student research papers, persuasive essays and more.

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Are social networking sites good for society?

This is the source that I desperately needed.  My paper is about there being no answer to this question because of all the gray areas and the two different sides of it.  This gives all sorts of pros and cons about social media, and there are a couple that refer to mental health, which is just what I needed.

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Among the biggest obstacles to good thinking is what we psychologists call the confirmation bias. It's the tendency to seek out only information that confirms your existing beliefs. ProCon.org is the best antidote to this bias that I have seen. Its not just that it puts disconfirming information right there on the page, where it can't be missed. It's that ProCon.org models open-mindedness, respect for the complexity of truth, and respect for the sincerity of people on both sides of controversial issues. ProCon.org is a boon to our ailing civic culture.

Dr. Jonathan Haidt

[teenson12-blog]

Calling all Politic Newbies

I never really paid much attention to politics, so I was pretty lost when it came to political terminology. Fortunately, after almost a whole term later though, I understand politics enough to follow the debates, while live tweeting.

Today in history class, I was introduced to 2012election.procon.org. It was like my history teacher knew I was trying to understand politics better! Procon.org has everything from the transcripts of the debates, to how to become a US president. While browsing through all the different tabs, I found a summary chart of what all the presidential candidates positions were on 75 different issues. Procon.org lined all five candidates views, from abortion, to the war in Iraq. For a politic newbie like me, this was by far the most helpful part of the website. I got to actually see what the candidate’s views were, instead of trying to decipher their round about answers during debates.  

After I thoroughly clicked all the links, I took the 2012 Presidential Candidates Quiz, to see whose views I favor the most. I won’t mention whom I support, but I will say that the results surprised me. The quiz asked me the same issues that they had listed on their summary chart, so every time I answered a question, Procon.org would tell me with who’s views I lined up with. In the end, I realized that many of my views were scattered among all of the candidates.

Another really cool fact is that Procon.org is also able to list the candidate’s finances, so one can see how much each candidate has aleady spent and how much money they have left, or how indebt they are...  I highly recommend politic newbies, and veterans to check out this site, it helped me so much, and even though I’ not old enough to vote this year, I will definitely use procon.com again when the next election comes around!

- Emily J