The adults have left the building and the outcome is chaos and pain....
04.03.2025 17:27
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The adults have left the building and the outcome is chaos and pain....
R continues to be the most insane programming language ever.
Suppose you want to exclude by Age, say 18 year olds.
data = filter(data, !(Age == 18)) seems intuitive. Yet, if there are any NAs (missing data for Age) those cases are excluded too. How does that logic make any sense??? Crazy stuff...
“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him… Don’t believe him.”
—Ezra Klein
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
🚨 Misinformation isn’t just noise—it shapes history, fuels division, and even costs lives. 🚨
How do political falsehoods spread—and what actually works to stop them? 🔎📊🧪
Read more: www.bi.edu/research/bus...
#Science #Politics #Misinformation #MediaLiteracy
Polarization has become a serious threat to shared reality, democracy, and even health
"Thousands of people were dying needlessly because they didn’t trust medical advice, or their government, or mainstream media”
Reducing partisan animosity is doable, but tricky:
www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
My team's recent research: at work, women speak up less than men only when groups are uncivil. Maybe it's not a lack of confidence or leaning in that silences women, but actual cues in the environment. Focus on fixing the incivility, not the women! hbr.org/2025/01/rese...
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Don't give up - do something. A great list for civic minded Americans, from @protectdemocracy.org
open.substack.com/pub/protectd...
🎉Postdoc Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc to start Summer 2025 in the Mind & Morality Lab at Brown. If you're interested, please send a CV, cover letter, and names of at least two references to julia_marshall1@brown.edu by 2/28. If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out!
It’s lonely on the Right
Loneliness is associated with support for the 🇳🇱 populist radical right.
“Loneliness due to its physiologically dysregulating impact on the nervous system, facilitates greater susceptibility towards populist radical right parties”
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cool work! I wonder, what are the effect-sizes in terms of these targeted 'personality' ads/messages compared to non-individualized ads? Are they much more powerful in terms of outcomes, or are the effects somewhat trivial?
Skewed polls like this artificially and harmfully increase distrust in government and public institutions by using 2 to 1 weights: "it has been broken". This type of manipulation, often done to create click-bait headlines, has become strikingly common at NYTimes #keepmoneyoutofnews #nytimes #polling
one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.
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THE AGE OF LIES: Social media (Meta, X, IG, et.) has ended all pretense of relaying facts to the public, the public news media (print, PBS, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc) must call out "Leadership Lies" every day on their reports. Trump's "news conference" yesterday was laced with lies.
tinyurl.com/bdh5uvev
One authoritarian scholar notes that there is a difference between a traditional liar and an autocratic liar. The traditional liar lies to conceal, and therefore implicitly respects the power of the listener. The autocrat lies for dominance. The lies are outrageous, but does one dare challenge them?
Just another example of the NYTimes obfuscating and distracting from the real issues...just to be clear, the real issue is 100% misinformation.
Completely agreed. Based on a LOT of research, it's fairly clear that this change will directly cause harm, including increases in political violence and other potentially fatal behaviors.
Gave a talk recently on exactly this point. If interested, see here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPP...
As a misinformation researcher, I expect the changes at Meta will DIRECTLY increase partisanship and harm, including political violence (read: people will die). We know that fact-checking works, even among Rep users! Yet...🤬
Check out the research and what we can do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPP...
As a misinformation researcher, I expect the changes at Meta will DIRECTLY increase partisanship and harm, including political violence (read: people will die). We know that fact-checking works, even among Rep users! Yet...🤬
Check out the research and what we can do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPP...
As a misinformation researcher, I expect these changes will DIRECTLY increase partisanship and harm, including real-world violence (read: people will die). We know that fact-checking works, even among Rep users! Yet...🤬
Check out the research and what we can do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPP...
As a misinformation researcher, I expect these changes will DIRECTLY increase partisanship and harm, including political violence (read: people will die). We know that fact-checking works, even among Rep users! Yet...🤬
Check out the research and what we can do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPP...
As a misinformation researcher, these changes will DIRECTLY increase partisanship and harm, including political violence (read: people will die). We know that fact-checking works, even among Rep users! Yet...🤬
If you're interested in the research and what we can do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPP...
As a misinformation researcher, these changes will DIRECTLY increase partisanship and harm, including political violence (read: people will die). We know that fact-checking works, even among Rep users! Yet...🤬
If you're interested in the research and what we can do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPP...
As a misinformation researcher, these changes will DIRECTLY increase partisanship and harm, including political violence (read: people will die). We know that fact-checking works, even across Dem and Rep users!
If you're interested in the research and what we can do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPP...
As a misinformation researcher, I expect these changes will DIRECTLY increase partisanship and harm, including political violence. We know that fact-checking works, and it even does so across Dems and Reps!
If you're interested in this research and what we can do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPP...
As a misinformation researcher, I expect these changes will DIRECTLY increase partisanship and harm, including political violence. We know that fact-checking works, and it even does so across Dems and Reps!
If you're interested in this research and what we can do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPP...
100% agreed. Tons of research showing that fact-checking is quite effective--even across ideologies/political groups, meaning across liberals and conservatives!
The changes are the result of corruption and pressure from the incoming administration, right? I expect increased partisanship and misinformatiuon that DIRECTLY causes harm, including political violence and fatal health behaviors. If you're interested in the research: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPP...
As a misinformation researcher, it's fairly clear that the content Meta is now allowing DIRECTLY causes harm, including political violence and fatal health behaviors. If you're interested in the research, see here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPP...