For all you edumucated types. 30 pages of sheer esotericism. https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/deliver...6015025091102019107088005105116078005&EXT=pdf I scrolled to the end to see what the conclusion was. We appear to have a lot of the bases covered, here, in the S2 Forum. Might we even be considered a sort of microcosm of national/world views, as it were? Like-minded people, engaged in discussion with one another, may lead each other in the direction of error and falsehood, simply because of the limited argument pool and the operation of social influences. I have suggested that the best response to this problem is to attempt to ensure against social balkanization and fragmentation, through mechanisms providing a “public sphere” that is used, at once, by people with competing perspectives on facts and values. If a general public sphere is unavailable or not feasible, it becomes all the more important to ensure that in the course of deliberation, people are exposed to a range of reasonable competing views. Of course it might seem hard to know what counts as a reasonable competing view without knowing what is actually right, and if we already know that, there might seem to be little point to deliberation. But short of knowing what is right, it is possible to know something about the range of reasonable candidates, and about who might learn from whom. Perhaps the largest lesson provided by group polarization involves the need to structure processes of deliberation so as to ensure that people are exposed, not to softer or louder echoes of their own voices, but to a range of reasonable alternatives. By itself, that lesson is very far from new; but an understanding of the potential effects of group polarization argues in favor of fresh thinking, and possible reforms, in many contemporary institutions.
I'll narrow it down even more...situation, problem, process, solution....unedumucated types never get passed step 2...problem...anyone who is in the step 3 mode will seem threatening to the folks who are addicted to step 2. People have high intellectual ideas but emotionally usually aren't equipped to deal with those ideas let alone put them into practice...if like minded bothers some...stop using the like button!
This is an interesting post... Not totally sure I agree with much of it, but it’s interesting. I think the point of the article was more about diversity of views and its benefits vs the circular arguments of an echo chamber of like-minded individuals who can at times bounce flawed logic off of each other but because they are like minded don't recognize the flawed logic.
viewable in many demographics. Including here. some aren't able to have discussions with those of differing opinions aNd often derail or degrade threads and individuals in the conversation because they aren't in agreement. There is no growth or knowledge to be gained by this behavior. However this behavior tends to be found in those who believe they are always right. Just had it happen to me yesterday in here. lots of truth to the OP in my opinion.
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