Not all conversation is equal, either; striving for high quality discussions, rather than casual conversation, around political and social issues becomes key; to develop democratic citizens who have the capacity to think critically about issues, research multiple perspectives, then engage in respectful discourse is the goal.
"There's huge pressure to let modern science go ahead, but there's no high quality discussion on whether we need so many GM animals and whether they suffer unnecessarily.
However, the manner in which safety concerns, raised in good faith, were dismissed by some supporters of PNT/MST interventions is not what might be expected in a high quality discussion.
Payment might help, but simply creating more advance directives won't foster better end-of-life care unless we ensure good, high-quality discussions.
Most importantly, the evidence presented in this paper supports a critical role for the instructor in stimulating high-quality discussions of clicker questions.
However, lack of comprehension of common prostate cancer terms, especially among low-literacy populations, as well as a lack of time during clinic visits, are key barriers to high-quality discussions [ 4, 5].
However, when the instructor used reasoning cues, students engaged in significantly more high-quality discussions that included exchanges of warrants (level 3) than when the instructor cued students to focus on the answer.
With a large group, maintaining high-quality discussions and finding a place to meet both become concerns.
Although these were not significant differences, the findings suggest a tendency for the highest-quality discussions to result in more correct answers.
"It's a question of a board engaging in high-quality discussion".
So while there is some truly awful content out there, there are, for instance, some high-quality discussion programs on the news channels and some superb op-ed writers for the mainstream broadsheet dailies.
