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Which, if IIRC, is what every political scientist who studies polling and presidential elections predicted. Upside of social media is helps experts escape professional bubbles, face ideas and criticisms they might otherwise miss: DEF the case for me w views of activists/abolitionists, etc. But:
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John Pfaff
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The downside of that same flattening is that expert opinion--which, again, while not always correct, is non-pundit expert opinion for a reason--will often get drowned out in a much deeper flood of overly-confident non-expert assertions. And this it is hard, mentally and emotionally, to filter well.
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Proof of Burden
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To be fair, the last few years have been hard on social science wisdom, and I hedged on whether or not it would be in force on Thursday night
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