Hey, any one of you got time. The way the question is worded doesn't really make sense to me.

Question

Directions: Watch the video below. The information may be new to you. Then in the discussion below, tell whether you think this is a reliable news story and support your answer with one of the following types of evidence:

A testimonial: retelling a personal experience

Cause/Effect or Causality: one event or action can lead to another

Data & Statistics: numbers, percentages are used to relay information or prove a point

link to video: (122) BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino - YouTube

I know it doesn't look like a link but just hover over the words and tap it, it is a link.

Answer 1

Hmm, yes, the wording here is not super-helpful.

I think, however, that the instructor may be asking you to explain whether or not you think the video is believable based off of either your own experiences, your own understanding of the physical world, and/or hard scientific facts that can prove the information from the video wrong or right.

As the video is a joke/hoax, you can approach your response by saying something along the lines of:

"This news story is unreliable because [e.g. 'I have bought spaghetti from the store and the box shows me that it does not grow on trees'; '98% of grains are grown differently from the grain products shown in the video', etc. -- I would't recommend using either of those examples especially since I literally just pulled them out of thin air, but my point is to use anything that explains why you don't believe the info from the video]."