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John Pfaff@johnpfaff.bsky.social |
The correlation between a bio that suggests extensive rigorous studying of presidential elections and political communications and confident doomer takes is close to -1. There's a lot to be said, genuinely, for the social flattening of social media. But it has some real costs too.
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John Pfaff
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The part of it that really gets me is the negative correlation on the confidence. I know, I know: academics are notorious for answering "... it's complicated" even for "is today Monday?" But still. The confidence I see sometimes in their replies is still surprising.
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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez
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I met my first undecided acquaintance today. Their reason is that they don’t have enough information. It became clear to me that we inhabit different worlds.
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