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    <title>The Danger of Decorative Statistics - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-05T01:06:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>epidemiology_of_representations natural_history_of_truthiness gelman.andrew have_read</dc:subject>
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    <title>[2206.07271] Human Heuristics for AI-Generated Language Are Flawed</title>
    <dc:date>2022-06-19T16:52:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07271</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Human communication is increasingly intermixed with language generated by AI. Across chat, email, and social media, AI systems produce smart replies, autocompletes, and translations. AI-generated language is often not identified as such but poses as human language, raising concerns about novel forms of deception and manipulation. Here, we study how humans discern whether one of the most personal and consequential forms of language - a self-presentation - was generated by AI. Across six experiments, participants (N = 4,650) tried to identify self-presentations generated by state-of-the-art language models. Across professional, hospitality, and romantic settings, we find that humans are unable to identify AI-generated self-presentations. Combining qualitative analyses with language feature engineering, we find that human judgments of AI-generated language are handicapped by intuitive but flawed heuristics such as associating first-person pronouns, authentic words, or family topics with humanity. We show that these heuristics make human judgment of generated language predictable and manipulable, allowing AI systems to produce language perceived as more human than human. We conclude by discussing solutions - such as AI accents or fair use policies - to reduce the deceptive potential of generated language, limiting the subversion of human intuition."]]></description>
<dc:subject>natural_born_cyborgs natural_language_processing natural_history_of_truthiness text_mining via:henry_farrell cognitive_science networked_life philip_k_dick_and_the_fake_humans_rules_everything_around_me large_language_models_(so_called) in_NB</dc:subject>
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    <title>PsyArXiv Preprints | Why do so Few People Share Fake News? It Hurts Their Reputation.</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-18T23:16:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://psyarxiv.com/82r6q/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Despite their potential attractiveness, fake news is shared by a very small minority of internet users. As past research suggests a good reputation is more easily lost than gained, we hypothesized that the majority of people and media sources avoid sharing fake news stories so as to maintain a good reputation. In two pre-registered experiments (N = 3264) we found that the increase in trust that a source (media outlet or individual) enjoys when sharing one real news against a background of fake news is smaller than the drop in trust a source suffers when sharing one fake news against a background of real news. This asymmetry holds even when the outlet only shares politically congruent news. We suggest that individuals and media outlets avoid sharing fake news because it would hurt their reputation, reducing the social or economic benefits associated with being seen as a good source of information."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB social_media natural_history_of_truthiness mercier.hugo social_life_of_the_mind re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator re:democratic_cognition via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
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    <title>PsyArXiv Preprints | A “Need for Chaos” and the Sharing of Hostile Political Rumors in Advanced Democracies</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-08T01:07:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://psyarxiv.com/6m4ts/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The circulation of hostile political rumors (including but not limited to false news and conspiracy theories) has gained prominence in public debates across advanced democracies. Here, we provide the first comprehensive assessment of the psychological syndrome that elicits motivations to share hostile political rumors among citizens of democratic societies. Against the notion that sharing occurs to help one mainstream political actor in the increasingly polarized electoral competition against other mainstream actors, we demonstrate that sharing motivations are associated with ‘chaotic’ motivations to “burn down” the entire established democratic ‘cosmos’. We show that this extreme discontent is associated with motivations to share hostile political rumors, not because such rumors are viewed to be true but because they are believed to mobilize the audience against disliked elites. We introduce an individual difference measure, the “Need for Chaos”, to measure these motivations and illuminate their social causes, linked to frustrated status-seeking. Finally, we show that chaotic motivations are surprisingly widespread within advanced democracies, having some hold in up to 40 percent of the American national population."

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    <title>How I Knew the #CovingtonBoys Video Was Clickbait | Public Seminar</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-06T12:54:40+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I think the most underreported story about #CovingtonBoys is how it got to us in the first place. It originated with a piece of clickbait that was chosen and edited, by persons unknown, to produce outrage on the right and the left. Originating in a fake account, and proliferated by other fake accounts, it was part of a professional social media campaign intended to disrupt."]]></description>
<dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process networked_life social_media natural_history_of_truthiness re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
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    <title>Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election | Science</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-06T12:51:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6425/374</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The spread of fake news on social media became a public concern in the United States after the 2016 presidential election. We examined exposure to and sharing of fake news by registered voters on Twitter and found that engagement with fake news sources was extremely concentrated. Only 1% of individuals accounted for 80% of fake news source exposures, and 0.1% accounted for nearly 80% of fake news sources shared. Individuals most likely to engage with fake news sources were conservative leaning, older, and highly engaged with political news. A cluster of fake news sources shared overlapping audiences on the extreme right, but for people across the political spectrum, most political news exposure still came from mainstream media outlets."

--- To Bruce Sterling's (obviously correct) dictum that "The future is about old people, in big cities, afraid of the sky", perhaps we should add "outraged at nonsense".]]></description>
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    <title>‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-24T22:57:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nothing-on-this-page-is-real-how-lies-become-truth-in-online-america/2018/11/17/edd44cc8-e85a-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?noredirect=on</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is incredibly sad, on so many levels.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read networked_life natural_history_of_truthiness trolling internet social_media whats_gone_wrong_with_america re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator via:? deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-017-1477-x">
    <title>Due deference to denialism: explaining ordinary people’s rejection of established scientific findings | SpringerLink</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-30T15:12:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-017-1477-x</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There is a robust scientific consensus concerning climate change and evolution. But many people reject these expert views, in favour of beliefs that are strongly at variance with the evidence. It is tempting to try to explain these beliefs by reference to ignorance or irrationality, but those who reject the expert view seem often to be no worse informed or any less rational than the majority of those who accept it. It is also tempting to try to explain these beliefs by reference to epistemic overconfidence. However, this kind of overconfidence is apparently ubiquitous, so by itself it cannot explain the difference between those who accept and those who reject expert views. Instead, I will suggest that the difference is in important part explained by differential patterns of epistemic deference, and these patterns, in turn, are explained by the cues that we use to filter testimony. We rely on cues of benevolence and competence to distinguish reliable from unreliable testifiers, but when debates become deeply politicized, asserting a claim may itself constitute signalling lack of reliability."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB social_life_of_the_mind science_in_society natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:789d5506fb21/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:science_in_society"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300241006">
    <title>Misinformation Age | Yale University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2019-01-04T06:32:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300241006</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them?
"Philosophers of science Cailin O’Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what’s essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false beliefs. It might seem that there’s an obvious reason that true beliefs matter: false beliefs will hurt you. But if that’s right, then why is it (apparently) irrelevant to many people whether they believe true things or not?
"The Misinformation Age, written for a political era riven by “fake news,” “alternative facts,” and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, shows convincingly that what you believe depends on who you know. If social forces explain the persistence of false belief, we must understand how those forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively."

--- Review: [http://bactra.org/weblog/algae-2022-10.html#misinformation-age]]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted natural_history_of_truthiness epidemiology_of_representations social_life_of_the_mind psychoceramics re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator books:owned in_NB downloaded have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:49308dc7082c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html">
    <title>How Much of the Internet Is Fake?</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-26T19:38:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>networked_life deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://thebaffler.com/latest/twilight-of-the-racist-uncles-burmila">
    <title>Twilight of the Racist Uncles | Ed Burmila</title>
    <dc:date>2018-11-01T20:55:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thebaffler.com/latest/twilight-of-the-racist-uncles-burmila</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[OK, this is an enjoyable rant, and it gets at something real

"Facebook didn’t invent Boomers’ susceptibility to naked racial fearmongering or their yearning for a bygone America that never was. It did offer them a convenient meeting room where they could gather to share their own delusions and learn new ones. Social media connects the like-minded. Now we see the consequences no one paused to consider—what would happen if we created a single, self-sustaining Galaxy Brain of all of humanity’s worst impulses"

--- but does nothing to explain why this is particularly an issue for right-wing boomers, as opposed to everyone.]]></description>
<dc:subject>facebook social_life_of_the_mind social_media networked_life natural_history_of_truthiness epidemiology_of_representations re:democratic_cognition via:? re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo23022136">
    <title>Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), Wineburg</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-10T22:35:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo23022136</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious.
"With the internet always at our fingertips, what’s a teacher of history  to do? Sam Wineburg has answers, beginning with this: We definitely can’t stick to the same old read-the-chapter-answer-the-questions-at-the-back snoozefest we’ve subjected students to for decades. If we want to educate citizens who can sift through the mass of information around them and separate fact from fake, we have to explicitly work to give them the necessary critical thinking tools. Historical thinking, Wineburg shows us in Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), has nothing to do with test prep–style ability to memorize facts. Instead, it’s an orientation to the world that we can cultivate, one that encourages reasoned skepticism, discourages haste, and counters our tendency to confirm our biases. Wineburg draws on surprising discoveries from an array of research and experiments—including surveys of students, recent attempts to update history curricula, and analyses of how historians, students, and even fact checkers approach online sources—to paint a picture of a dangerously mine-filled landscape, but one that, with care, attention, and awareness, we can all learn to navigate."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted history networked_life natural_history_of_truthiness uses_of_the_past historiography education epidemiology_of_representations re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531">
    <title>How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-15T14:32:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I read stuff like this, and I think about a favorite quotation from a favorite historian

> [I]t is a great mistake to suppose that the only writers who matter are those whom the educated in their saner moments can take seriously. There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics for the benefit of the ignorant and superstitious. There are times when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures, and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people, who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility. And it occasionally happens that this underworld becomes a political power and changes the course of history.  [Norman Cohn, _Warrant for Genocide: the Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 1st ed., p. 18]

and I realize that I never really _felt_ the force of this before.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311968/trust-me-im-lying-by-ryan-holiday/9781591846284/">
    <title>Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday | PenguinRandomHouse.com</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-25T17:54:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311968/trust-me-im-lying-by-ryan-holiday/9781591846284/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Hailed as “astonishing and disturbing” by the Financial Times and “essential reading” by TechCrunch at its original publication, former American Apparel marketing director Ryan Holiday’s first book sounded a prescient alarm about the dangers of fake news. It’s all the more relevant today. 
"Trust Me, I’m Lying was the first book to blow the lid off the speed and force at which rumors travel online—and get “traded up” the media ecosystem until they become real headlines and generate real responses in the real world. The culprit? Marketers and professional media manipulators, encouraged by the toxic economics of the news business. 
"Whenever you see a malicious online rumor costs a company millions, politically motivated fake news driving elections, a product or celebrity zooming from total obscurity to viral sensation, or anonymously sourced articles becoming national conversation, someone is behind it. Often someone like Ryan Holiday. 
"As he explains, “I wrote this book to explain how media manipulators work, how to spot their fingerprints, how to fight them, and how (if you must) to emulate their tactics. Why am I giving away these secrets? Because I’m tired of a world where trolls hijack debates, marketers help write the news, opinion masquerades as fact, algorithms drive everything to extremes, and no one is accountable for any of it. I’m pulling back the curtain because it’s time the public understands how things really work. What you choose to do with this information is up to you.”"]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted advertising networked_life natural_history_of_truthiness deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process re:democratic_cognition color_me_skeptical</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.powells.com/book/-9781250107817">
    <title>Factfulness: Ten Reasons Were Wrong About the World &amp; Why Things Are Better Than You Think: Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Ola Rosling: Hardcover: 9781250107817: Powell's Books</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-13T14:36:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.powells.com/book/-9781250107817</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I would be _very_ leery of this book if it wasn't for Rosling's prior reputation.]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted debunking rosling.hans statistics natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/qanon-trump-conspiracy-theory.html?action=click&amp;module=TrendingGrid&amp;region=TrendingTop&amp;pgtype=collection">
    <title>Opinion | The Conspiracy Theory That Says Trump Is a Genius - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-10T22:33:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/opinion/qanon-trump-conspiracy-theory.html?action=click&amp;module=TrendingGrid&amp;region=TrendingTop&amp;pgtype=collection</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The creativity poured into QAnon is striking; it’s like something between a sprawling work of crowdsourced postmodern fiction and an immersive role-playing game."

--- The whole thing is worth reading, and following up on.  Three observations, in decreasing order of seriousness:
1. This template for the Diabolical Conspiracy is much older than Christian fears about Jews; the Romans applied it to the Christians, among others ( http://bactra.org/notebooks/conspiracy-theories.html ).
2. The history of ideas becomes much more comprehensible, and terrifying, once one realizes that the paragraph I quoted applies to (nearly) _every mythology and ideology ever_.
3. Finally, since about mid-2015, I feel we have been living in a Walter Jon Williams novel, _and I wish he'd cut it out_.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://slate.com/health-and-science/2018/01/weve-been-told-were-living-in-a-post-truth-age-dont-believe-it.html">
    <title>We’ve been told we’re living in a post-truth age. Don’t believe it.</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-05T22:49:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://slate.com/health-and-science/2018/01/weve-been-told-were-living-in-a-post-truth-age-dont-believe-it.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is well-written, and interesting, but only addresses one (to my mind, subsidiary) strand of the "post-truth age" idea, which is that attempts at debunking or providing facts can be actively counter-productive.  To my mind, the more interesting (and disturbing) strand of the claim has been that of eroding or collapsing social agreement on who are reliable purveyors of facts in the first place.  (Disdain for facts as such also exists but is, I think, vastly less common and less of a problem.)  To be blunt, the problem isn't that people get confused by CDC "myth/fact" sheets, it's Fox News.]]></description>
<dc:subject>popular_social_science epidemiology_of_representations natural_history_of_truthiness have_read re:democratic_cognition</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07592">
    <title>[1707.07592] The spread of misinformation by social bots</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-05T15:42:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07592</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The massive spread of digital misinformation has been identified as a major global risk and has been alleged to influence elections and threaten democracies. Communication, cognitive, social, and computer scientists are engaged in efforts to study the complex causes for the viral diffusion of misinformation online and to develop solutions, while search and social media platforms are beginning to deploy countermeasures. However, to date, these efforts have been mainly informed by anecdotal evidence rather than systematic data. Here we analyze 14 million messages spreading 400 thousand claims on Twitter during and following the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign and election. We find evidence that social bots play a disproportionate role in spreading and repeating misinformation. Automated accounts are particularly active in amplifying misinformation in the very early spreading moments, before a claim goes viral. Bots target users with many followers through replies and mentions, and may disguise their geographic locations. Humans are vulnerable to this manipulation, retweeting bots who post misinformation. Successful sources of false and misleading claims are heavily supported by social bots. These results suggest that curbing social bots may be an effective strategy for mitigating the spread of online misinformation."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB natural_history_of_truthiness social_media social_life_of_the_mind deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process text_mining networked_life via:henry_farrell re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator epidemiology_of_representations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ff64488981b0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:natural_history_of_truthiness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_life_of_the_mind"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:text_mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:henry_farrell"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:epidemiology_of_representations"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00494">
    <title>[1609.00494] Publication bias and the canonization of false facts</title>
    <dc:date>2017-11-06T21:46:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00494</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In the process of scientific inquiry, certain claims accumulate enough support to be established as facts. Unfortunately, not every claim accorded the status of fact turns out to be true. In this paper, we model the dynamic process by which claims are canonized as fact through repeated experimental confirmation. The community's confidence in a claim constitutes a Markov process: each successive published result shifts the degree of belief, until sufficient evidence accumulates to accept the claim as fact or to reject it as false. In our model, publication bias --- in which positive results are published preferentially over negative ones --- influences the distribution of published results. We find that when readers do not know the degree of publication bias and thus cannot condition on it, false claims often can be canonized as facts. Unless a sufficient fraction of negative results are published, the scientific process will do a poor job at discriminating false from true claims. This problem is exacerbated when scientists engage in p-hacking, data dredging, and other behaviors that increase the rate at which false positives are published. If negative results become easier to publish as a claim approaches acceptance as a fact, however, true and false claims can be more readily distinguished. To the degree that the model accurately represents current scholarly practice, there will be serious concern about the validity of purported facts in some areas of scientific research."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB science_as_a_social_process collective_cognition natural_history_of_truthiness to_read via:? kith_and_kin re:democratic_cognition bergstrom.carl_t.</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:34a27bc45af3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:science_as_a_social_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:collective_cognition"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:kith_and_kin"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:democratic_cognition"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/is-bigfoot-likelier-than-the-loch-ness-monster">
    <title>Fantastic Beasts and How to Rank Them | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-31T22:58:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/is-bigfoot-likelier-than-the-loch-ness-monster</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>natural_history_of_truthiness cognitive_science psychology schulz.kathryn to:blog have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d006722ee0ed/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:cognitive_science"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:schulz.kathryn"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:blog"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306312717710131">
    <title>STS as science or politics? Social Studies of Science - Harry Collins, Robert Evans, Martin Weinel, 2017</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-08T14:26:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306312717710131</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In a recent editorial for this journal, Sergio Sismondo makes two claims. First, he states that STS bears no responsibility for the emergence of post-truth politics. Second, he claims that debates about the nature of expertise that take place within STS are irrelevant in this context. In contrast, we argue that, whether or not STS had a causal influence on the emergence of post-truth politics, there is a clear resonance between the two positions and that the current political climate makes the empirically informed and scientific analysis of expertise and the form of life of science more important than ever. We argue that treating the contribution of STS to these matters as essentially political rather than scientific surrenders any special role we have as experts on the organization and values of science and leaves STS as just one political actor among others."

--- I appreciate what they're trying to do here, but I wish that the Collins who now doesn't like the idea of a community of academic specialists being "[left] ... as just one political actor among others" could be introduced to the Collins who wrote _The Golem_, "The Empirical Program of Relativism", and other full-throated endorsements of the "Strong Programme".]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB sociology_of_science natural_history_of_truthiness collins.harry science_as_a_social_process</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:73e631099c4a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/how-a-professional-climate-change-denier-discovered-the-lies-and-decided-to-fight-for-science/">
    <title>How a Professional Climate Change Denier Discovered the Lies and Decided to Fight for Science</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-01T23:57:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/how-a-professional-climate-change-denier-discovered-the-lies-and-decided-to-fight-for-science/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>climate_change vast_right-wing_conspiracy deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:79b51f73c205/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/22/14762030/donald-trump-tribal-epistemology">
    <title>Donald Trump and the rise of tribal epistemology - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-28T15:21:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/22/14762030/donald-trump-tribal-epistemology</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>natural_history_of_truthiness our_decrepit_institutions why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps us_politics vast_right-wing_conspiracy to_read via:absfac</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:54e2717e6c40/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pizzagate-from-rumor-to-hashtag-to-gunfire-in-dc/2016/12/06/4c7def50-bbd4-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_comet-reconstruct-852pm%253Ahomepage%252Fstory">
    <title>Pizzagate: From rumor, to hashtag, to gunfire in D.C. - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-25T17:40:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pizzagate-from-rumor-to-hashtag-to-gunfire-in-dc/2016/12/06/4c7def50-bbd4-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_comet-reconstruct-852pm%253Ahomepage%252Fstory</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>utter_stupidity psychoceramica vast_right-wing_conspiracy us_politics natural_history_of_truthiness networked_life social_media social_life_of_the_mind re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9ae36dbb5cf0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/12/movie-doesn-t-exist-and-redditors-who-think-it-does">
    <title>The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-21T19:32:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2016/12/movie-doesn-t-exist-and-redditors-who-think-it-does</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>epidemiology_of_representations memory natural_history_of_truthiness networked_life have_read re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2a926f509ced/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/07/the-proliferation-of-fake-stylized-facts/">
    <title>The proliferation of fake stylized facts - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-09T01:16:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/07/the-proliferation-of-fake-stylized-facts/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>scholarly_misconstruction_of_reality epidemiology_of_representations natural_history_of_truthiness why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f744da3f7d61/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:epidemiology_of_representations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:natural_history_of_truthiness"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745669854">
    <title>Book - Colin Crouch - The Knowledge Corrupters: Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-05T22:41:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745669854</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument advanced by Colin Crouch in his latest exploration of societies on the road to post-democracy."
Crouch shows that executives in profit-maximizing corporations have incentives to ignore or distort knowledge, especially firms in the information business of the mass media themselves, as financial knowledge increasingly trumps the other kinds of knowledge that business needs. Firms also seek to take control of public knowledge and use it for their own ends, often at the cost of other stakeholders in society. Meanwhile the transfer of similar practices to professional public services undermines professional skills and ethics - especially when these services are out-sourced to the private sector. Attempts to extricate ourselves from these problems involve reshaping the complex and often conflicting relationships among citizens, professionals, managers and financiers.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness crouch.colin social_life_of_the_mind via:henry_farrell books:owned</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a7c0bd3fd719/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-propaganda-about-russian-propaganda?intcid=mod-latest">
    <title>The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda - The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-05T01:44:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-propaganda-about-russian-propaganda?intcid=mod-latest</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps networked_life deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness epidemiology_of_representations us_politics journalism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b4bf98be7b57/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2743641">
    <title>Dogon Restudied: A Field Evaluation of the Work of Marcel Griaule [and Comments and Replies] on JSTOR</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-18T19:41:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.jstor.org/stable/2743641</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This restudy of the Dogon of Mali asks whether the texts produced by Marcel Griaule depict a society that is recognizable to the researcher and to the Dogon today and answers the question more or less in the negative. The picture of Dogon religion presented in _Dieu d'eau_ and _Le renard pale_ proved impossible to replicate in the field, even as the shadowy remnant of a largely forgotten past. The reasons for this, it is suggested, lie in the particular field situation of Griaule's research, including features of the ethnographer's approach, the political setting, the experience and predilections of the informants, and the values of Dogon culture."

--- This is an extraordinary story of a cluster of (mostly) good intentions producing horribly skewed results, which then took on a bizarre life of their own.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB ethnography epidemiology_of_representations scholarly_misconstruction_of_reality to:blog natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ef078901e689/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=332162">
    <title>The Market for Data: The Changing Role of Social Sciences in Shaping the Law by Elizabeth Warren :: SSRN</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-30T17:38:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=332162</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A vigorous market for scholarly data exists, as journalists, lobbyists and legislators search for facts to pepper their public statements and better influence public opinion. In the bankruptcy area, data providers, such as the Credit Research Center located at Georgetown University, have taken money from the consumer credit industry to produce studies supporting the credit industry's political positions. In the case of the CRC, the studies bear the University logo, but the Center describes the data as "proprietary," belonging exclusively to the industry funders who decide what data are released and what data are held private. This paper explores the implications of such funding arrangements on independent research and ultimately on the public debates."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness corruption academia think_tanks our_decrepit_institutions social_science_methodology social_life_of_the_mind via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d03a38c4da34/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.bartlett.psychol.cam.ac.uk/RememberingBook.htm">
    <title>Remembering: A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-28T04:31:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.bartlett.psychol.cam.ac.uk/RememberingBook.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The 1932 classic.]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted psychology memory epidemiology_of_representations cognitive_science natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ba760f082e2c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:cognitive_science"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/18/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-why-this-is-the-final-column/">
    <title>What was fake on the Internet this week: Why this is the final column - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-19T23:38:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/18/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-why-this-is-the-final-column/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I had no idea this even existed, much less that it'd given up.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networked_life psychoceramica epidemiology_of_representations running_dogs_of_reaction natural_history_of_truthiness deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process track_down_references to:blog have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e660aa4ad43d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.html">
    <title>On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-09T02:46:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous) has not, to our knowledge, been subject to empirical investigation. Here we focus on pseudo-profound bullshit, which consists of seemingly impressive assertions that are presented as true and meaningful but are actually vacuous. We presented participants with bullshit statements consisting of buzzwords randomly organized into statements with syntactic structure but no discernible meaning (e.g., “Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena”). Across multiple studies, the propensity to judge bullshit statements as profound was associated with a variety of conceptually relevant variables (e.g., intuitive cognitive style, supernatural belief). Parallel associations were less evident among profundity judgments for more conventionally profound (e.g., “A wet person does not fear the rain”) or mundane (e.g., “Newborn babies require constant attention”) statements. These results support the idea that some people are more receptive to this type of bullshit and that detecting it is not merely a matter of indiscriminate skepticism but rather a discernment of deceptive vagueness in otherwise impressive sounding claims. Our results also suggest that a bias toward accepting statements as true may be an important component of pseudo-profound bullshit receptivity."

--- PDF (oddly not linked to from HTML version): http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB cognitive_science rhetoric natural_history_of_truthiness funny:geeky funny:malicious social_life_of_the_mind</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:aa528b737cfd/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.roughtype.com/?p=6527">
    <title>Of drills and holes and Ronald Coase: the limits of sharing | ROUGH TYPE</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-26T23:58:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.roughtype.com/?p=6527</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In addition to making a shrewd point about why some types of shared-property ideas don't make much sense, this also opens with an excellent example of the epidemiology of a cliche.
(But consider as a counter-example to the transaction-cost story here the possibility of a tool _library_.  You'd check out the tool and return it, there'd be fines if you returned it in bad order, the librarians would make sure it was cleaned and charged, a sensible library would have multiple copies of common tools --- and it would _not_ be a single national-scale institution, but one at the level of a city or even a neighborhood.  Heck, consider the video rental store, which was a perfectly viable business until the bandwidth of home Internet exceeded the bandwidth of a tape or disc in a car.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>economics transaction_costs private_property natural_history_of_truthiness sharing_economy epidemiology_of_representations have_read to:blog via:whimsley</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:30ba818a1fe8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://notstatschat.tumblr.com/post/129400298906/398ppm-and-all-that">
    <title>Biased and Inefficient - 398ppm and All That</title>
    <dc:date>2015-09-21T02:27:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://notstatschat.tumblr.com/post/129400298906/398ppm-and-all-that</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[No summary could do this justice.]]></description>
<dc:subject>climate_change conspiracy_theories china:prc natural_history_of_truthiness running_dogs_of_reaction funny:geeky funny:malicious funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming lumley.thomas to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f1055caace7c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://spp.sagepub.com/content/3/6/767">
    <title>Dead and Alive: Beliefs in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-28T20:19:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://spp.sagepub.com/content/3/6/767</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Conspiracy theories can form a monological belief system: A self-sustaining worldview comprised of a network of mutually supportive beliefs. The present research shows that even mutually incompatible conspiracy theories are positively correlated in endorsement. In Study 1 (n = 137), the more participants believed that Princess Diana faked her own death, the more they believed that she was murdered. In Study 2 (n = 102), the more participants believed that Osama Bin Laden was already dead when U.S. special forces raided his compound in Pakistan, the more they believed he is still alive. Hierarchical regression models showed that mutually incompatible conspiracy theories are positively associated because both are associated with the view that the authorities are engaged in a cover-up (Study 2). The monological nature of conspiracy belief appears to be driven not by conspiracy theories directly supporting one another but by broader beliefs supporting conspiracy theories in general."

--- I'd want to look very carefully at the numerical data to make sure this isn't being driven by a few people who are crazy (even once you allow for their being into conspiracy theories).  In fact, this sounds like a situation where you'd really want to look carefully at protocols collected from the interviewees...  Last tag conditional on the authors responding positively to my query about access to the data.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_skimmed surveys hierarchical_statistical_models conspiracy_theories sociology to_teach:undergrad-ADA psychology natural_history_of_truthiness in_NB</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a6a1bd4a5390/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.statschat.org.nz/2015/01/20/ask-a-silly-question-get-a-silly-answer/">
    <title>Ask a silly question, get a silly answer | Stats Chat</title>
    <dc:date>2015-01-21T00:46:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.statschat.org.nz/2015/01/20/ask-a-silly-question-get-a-silly-answer/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Presumably there a linguistic-pragmatics explanation of this --- people are interpreting the question so it makes sense as something asked for by an intelligent person, quite possibly more knowledgeable than they are.]]></description>
<dc:subject>bad_data_analysis bad_science_journalism surveys natural_history_of_truthiness blogged</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:25e8641902d4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nature.com/news/study-points-to-press-releases-as-sources-of-hype-1.16551">
    <title>Study points to press releases as sources of hype : Nature News &amp; Comment</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-29T01:57:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/news/study-points-to-press-releases-as-sources-of-hype-1.16551</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>track_down_references natural_history_of_truthiness deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process bad_science_journalism why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:cf4a4e70370a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://mitpress.mit.edu/nat-theology">
    <title>A Natural History of Natural Theology | The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-09T05:52:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mitpress.mit.edu/nat-theology</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of natural theology, which seeks to gain knowledge of the divine by relying on reason and experience of the world. Arguments in natural theology rely largely on intuitions and inferences that seem natural to us, occurring spontaneously—at the sight of a beautiful landscape, perhaps, or in wonderment at the complexity of the cosmos—even to a nonphilosopher. In this book, Helen De Cruz and Johan De Smedt examine the cognitive origins of arguments in natural theology. They find that although natural theological arguments can be very sophisticated, they are rooted in everyday intuitions about purpose, causation, agency, and morality. Using evidence and theories from disciplines including the cognitive science of religion, evolutionary ethics, evolutionary aesthetics, and the cognitive science of testimony, they show that these intuitions emerge early in development and are a stable part of human cognition.
"De Cruz and De Smedt analyze the cognitive underpinnings of five well-known arguments for the existence of God: the argument from design, the cosmological argument, the moral argument, the argument from beauty, and the argument from miracles. Finally, they consider whether the cognitive origins of these natural theological arguments should affect their rationality."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted cognitive_science psychology theology natural_history_of_truthiness anima_naturaliter_christina_vel_superstitiosam downloaded</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b201a22c810b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10399.html">
    <title>Grimmer, J. and Westwood, S., Messing, S.: The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability. (eBook, Paperback and Hardcover)</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-06T20:15:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10399.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Constituents often fail to hold their representatives accountable for federal spending decisions—even though those very choices have a pervasive influence on American life. Why does this happen? Breaking new ground in the study of representation, The Impression of Influence demonstrates how legislators skillfully inform constituents with strategic communication and how this facilitates or undermines accountability. Using a massive collection of Congressional texts and innovative experiments and methods, the book shows how legislators create an impression of influence through credit claiming messages.
"Anticipating constituents’ reactions, legislators claim credit for programs that elicit a positive response, making constituents believe their legislator is effectively representing their district. This spurs legislators to create and defend projects popular with their constituents. Yet legislators claim credit for much more—they announce projects long before they begin, deceptively imply they deserve credit for expenditures they had little role in securing, and boast about minuscule projects. Unfortunately, legislators get away with seeking credit broadly because constituents evaluate the actions that are reported, rather than the size of the expenditures."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted us_politics congress political_science rhetorical_self-fashioning natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:dafa1a7eca13/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/a-call-for-help">
    <title>A Call for Help - The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-24T15:36:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/10/a-call-for-help</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>crime historical_myths debunking moral_psychology journalism natural_history_of_truthiness why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&amp;uin=uk.bl.ethos.301973">
    <title>British Library EThOS : Thesis Details - Knowledge construction in typography : the case of legibility research and the legibility of sans serif typefaces.</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-30T19:33:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&amp;uin=uk.bl.ethos.301973</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This thesis is first of all an epistemological study preoccupied with typographic knowledge construction. The thesis is also in its own right an idiographic historical study about legibility research and about the discourse on the legibility of sans serif typefaces.
"Changing theoretical and operational definitions of legibility are discussed, an historical outline of legibility research is presented, and critiques of legibility research that from time to time have surfaced are analysed around recurring topics. Central to the thesis is a detailed and critical review of 28 typeface legibility studies based on a wide variety of rationales and operational methods, the first published in 1896, the last in 1997.
"The thesis effectively reveals that nearly all of the 28 reviewed studies (of a surprising total of 72 identified studies) lack internal validity (the intra-paradigm sine qua non of experimental research). Other methodological flaws are also revealed. The detailed survey provides a thorough empirical substantiation of criticism that has been raised only in a sweeping manner at earlier occasions. The thesis shows that traditional experimental legibility research has provided a non- productive approach to typographic knowledge construction.
"However, the thesis reveals that an increasing number of typeface legibility studies have been carried out during the last two decades. This stands in contrast to prevailing notions that legibility research to a large extent vanished in the early 1980s, or alternatively, that 'too few' legibility studies have been carried out during the last two decades. The thesis also shows that dubious and even seriously flawed legibility studies are frequently and indiscriminately cited in the field of information design.
"Although the thesis primarily contributes knowledge to a self- reflective conversation in typography and information design, it also contributes knowledge of value to design history, design epistemology, reading research history and social science history."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read typography history_of_science natural_history_of_truthiness social_life_of_the_mind</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:cfa7ba8dd30a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://author-zone.com/serif-readability-myth/">
    <title>The Serif Readability Myth - Author-Zone</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-30T19:32:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://author-zone.com/serif-readability-myth/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>natural_history_of_truthiness typography experimental_psychology history_of_science social_life_of_the_mind via:vaguery tracked_down_references</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8f0f2d2726dc/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:experimental_psychology"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_life_of_the_mind"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:vaguery"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://sss.sagepub.com/content/44/4/638.long">
    <title>Academic urban legends</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-13T03:05:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sss.sagepub.com/content/44/4/638.long</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently, and in such complex, colorful, and entertaining ways that we can think of them as academic urban legends. The explanation for this phenomenon is usually that authors have lazily, sloppily, or fraudulently employed sources, and peer reviewers and editors have not discovered these weaknesses in the manuscripts during evaluation. To illustrate this phenomenon, I draw upon a remarkable case in which a decimal point error appears to have misled millions into believing that spinach is a good nutritional source of iron. Through this example, I demonstrate how an academic urban legend can be conceived and born, and can continue to grow and reproduce within academia and beyond."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB social_life_of_the_mind epidemiology_of_representations science_as_a_social_process academia sociology_of_science sociology natural_history_of_truthiness via:? have_read to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:262a8e8d7f9d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.pnas.org/content/111/Supplement_3/10854.abstract.html?etoc">
    <title>Policy folklists and evolutionary theory</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-29T15:06:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pnas.org/content/111/Supplement_3/10854.abstract.html?etoc</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Policy folklists present a set of alleged historical facts seen as relevant to some social issue. Although the validity of these folklists is dubious, leaders and writers circulate them in the media, variants arise, and the lists continue on, sometimes for decades. Folklists are repeated because their messages are appealing and their users are credible. Because folklists are on the record, we can examine their origins and changes. This report draws an analogy with evolutionary theory and suggests that biological mechanisms of self-repair, boundary maintenance, plasticity, speciation, and predation have significant interpretations for folklists, and clarify how the lists win the credence of otherwise skeptical people."]]></description>
<dc:subject>natural_history_of_truthiness evolution cultural_evolution public_policy epidemiology_of_representations have_read to:blog in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e2057e5b9f04/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.informationdiet.com/">
    <title>Information Diet | Home</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-21T14:30:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.informationdiet.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Healthy information consumption habits are about more than productivity and efficiency. They're about your personal health, and the health of society. Just as junk food can lead to obesity, junk information can lead to new forms of ignorance. The Information Diet provides a framework for consuming information in a healthy way, by showing you what to look for, what to avoid, and how to be selective. In the process, author Clay Johnson explains the role information has played throughout history, and why following his prescribed diet is essential in today's information age.
"With this book, you’ll learn:
"The relationship between power, authority, and information since the dawn of the first major information-technology boom
"How people react to information consumption, according to cognitive science and neuroscience findings
"How the new, information-abundant society is suffering consequences from poor information consumption habits
"What constitutes a healthy information diet and how you can get started"]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted networked_life journalism social_life_of_the_mind social_media attention natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d9045d428529/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/data-stories/">
    <title>Deciphering a well-told data story, cars are good for kids edition | Family Inequality</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-17T13:03:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/data-stories/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>bad_data_analysis why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_intelligentsia journalism natural_history_of_truthiness to_teach via:ariddell</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:059173e0f5a8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all">
    <title>Jill Lepore: What the Theory of “Disruptive Innovation” Gets Wrong : The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-17T03:07:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/06/23/140623fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[- This actually seems like a good example of Boudon's theory of ideology.  It's not enough for the ideology to have moral/political content.  To be effective, it has to also have some story about how the world works which _makes sense_ (you can see how things _could_ happen that way), and fits some examples, or seems to.  The ideologist then over-generalizes (becomes what Boudon calls a "hyperbole machine").]]></description>
<dc:subject>innovation our_decrepit_institutions why_corporations_are_messed_up the_wired_ideology evisceration lepore.jill have_read via:arthegall economic_history natural_history_of_truthiness ideology to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:152f730e1057/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:why_corporations_are_messed_up"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo13181062">
    <title>Think Tanks in America, Medvetz</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-10T17:13:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo13181062</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Over the past half-century, think tanks have become fixtures of American politics, supplying advice to presidents and policy makers, expert testimony on Capitol Hill, and convenient facts and figures to journalists and media specialists. But what are think tanks? Who funds them? What kind of “research” do they produce? Where does their authority come from? And how influential have they become?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>books:noted think_tanks public_policy political_science us_politics natural_history_of_truthiness in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:55f249ad1635/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/research/documents/Chameleons%20-The%20Misuse%20of%20Theoretical%20Models%20032614.pdf">
    <title>Chameleons: The Misuse of Theoretical Models</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-02T02:28:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/research/documents/Chameleons%20-The%20Misuse%20of%20Theoretical%20Models%20032614.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In this essay I discuss how theoretical models in finance and economics are used in ways that make them “chameleons” and how chameleons devalue the intellectual currency and muddy policy debates. A model becomes a chameleon when it is built on assumptions with dubious connections to the real world but nevertheless has conclusions that are uncritically (or not critically enough) applied to understanding our economy. I discuss how chameleons are created and nurtured by the mistaken notion that one should not judge a model by its assumptions, by the unfounded argument that models should have equal standing until definitive empirical tests are conducted, and by misplaced appeals to “as-if” arguments, mathematical elegance, subtlety, references to assumptions that are “standard in the literature,” and the need for tractability."

--- Query: Are the fundamental theorems of welfare economics "chameleons"?]]></description>
<dc:subject>social_science_methodology economics finance natural_history_of_truthiness scholarly_misconstruction_of_reality ideology have_read to:blog in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:593c02991c1c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/03/28/2417/the-launch-of-fivethirtyeight-com-and-climate-change-disaster-weblogging-trying-to-be-the-honest-broker-for-the-week-of-march-29-2014">
    <title>Washington Center for Equitable Growth | The Launch of fivethirtyeight.com and Climate Change Disaster Weblogging: (Trying to Be) The Honest Broker for the Week of March 29, 2014</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-31T18:01:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://equitablegrowth.org/2014/03/28/2417/the-launch-of-fivethirtyeight-com-and-climate-change-disaster-weblogging-trying-to-be-the-honest-broker-for-the-week-of-march-29-2014</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>climate_change bad_data_analysis disasters why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3cecc58aa5d3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jaf/summary/v123/123.488.fine.html">
    <title>Project MUSE - Policy Legends and Folklists: Traditional Beliefs in the Public Sphere</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-11T21:39:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jaf/summary/v123/123.488.fine.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Although folklorists have seldom concentrated on politics, folklore thrives among decision-making elites and the politically aware citizenry. One genre is the "policy legend," a traditional text that describes institutions or social conditions, often in a historical frame, to call for governmental or collective action. Even though policy legends are typically transmitted in written form, they change continually, adapting to their political contexts and the concerns of their communicators and audiences. They frequently take the form of lists, which we call folklists, and survive through autopoiesis, the propensity of a system to repair and maintain its internal elements and boundaries. This article analyzes three policy legends: the list of historical statistics on the prevalence of war, then-and-now lists of the worst school discipline problems, and an alleged, wordy federal regulation on the price of cabbages."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB epidemiology_of_representations public_policy natural_history_of_truthiness via:henry_farrell re:democratic_cognition have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:884e88aeae68/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.fakebuddhaquotes.com/">
    <title>Fake Buddha Quotes | &quot;Nope, I didn't say that.&quot; — The Buddha</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-09T20:03:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.fakebuddhaquotes.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>buddhism historical_myths natural_history_of_truthiness via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f8076266ed04/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://andrewgelman.com/2012/09/cigarettes/">
    <title>“If our product is harmful . . . we’ll stop making it.” « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-02T16:14:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://andrewgelman.com/2012/09/cigarettes/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness smoking statistics causal_inference corruption our_decrepit_institutions rubin.donald_b.</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://nathanexplainsscience.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-read-graphs-public-policy-version.html">
    <title>Nathan Explains Science: How to read graphs: The public policy version</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-28T15:01:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nathanexplainsscience.blogspot.com/2012/08/how-to-read-graphs-public-policy-version.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dear God.
Let me emphasize a point Nathan mentioned but could've said more of.  The bad-but-experienced teachers are selected to be the bottom 10--24% of experienced teachers.  Nonetheless, their median is at the 35th percentile of _all_ teachers --- not the 5th or the 12th percentile, or even the 24th, but the 35th.  To use this as an argument that experienced teachers aren't, on average, better, is really remarkable innumeracy.  Conceivably, it could just be that bad teachers leave preferentially, so this is all selection and not learning, but still.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/2012/08/niall-ferguson-and-the-rage-against.html">
    <title>Niall Ferguson and the Rage Against the Thought-Leader Machine - Justin Fox - Harvard Business Review</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-23T19:50:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/2012/08/niall-ferguson-and-the-rage-against.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions corruption natural_history_of_truthiness ideology ferguson.niall intellectuals</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/930.html">
    <title>On &lt;cite&gt;Left Turn&lt;/cite&gt;</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-18T03:40:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/930.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>self-promotion running_dogs_of_reaction political_science natural_history_of_truthiness inference_to_latent_objects</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=12990">
    <title>Open for Business: Conservatives’ Opposition to Environmental Regulation - The MIT Press</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-15T16:39:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=12990</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Since the 1970s, conservative activists have invoked free markets and distrust of the federal government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental regulations. They have promoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline to counter environmentalists’ scenario of a fragile earth in need of protection, mobilized grassroots opposition, and mounted creative legal challenges to environmental laws. But what has been the impact of all this activity on policy? In this book, Judith Layzer offers a detailed and systematic analysis of conservatives’ prolonged campaign to dismantle the federal regulatory framework for environmental protection.
"Examining conservatives’ influence from the Nixon era to the Obama administration, Layzer describes a set of increasingly sophisticated tactics--including the depiction of environmentalists as extremist elitists, a growing reliance on right-wing think tanks and media outlets, the cultivation of sympathetic litigators and judges, and the use of environmentally friendly language to describe potentially harmful activities. She argues that although conservatives have failed to repeal or revamp any of the nation’s environmental statutes, they have influenced the implementation of those laws in ways that increase the risks we face, prevented or delayed action on newly recognized problems, and altered the way Americans think about environmental problems and their solutions. Layzer’s analysis sheds light not only on the politics of environmental protection but also, more generally, on the interaction between ideas and institutions in the development of policy."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/the-naked-and-the-ted-khanna">
    <title>Evgeny Morozov: The Naked And The TED | The New Republic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-10T15:16:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/the-naked-and-the-ted-khanna</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I must disclose that I spoke at a TED Global Conference in Oxford in 2009, and I admit that my appearance there certainly helped to expose my argument to a much wider audience, for which I remain grateful. So I take no pleasure in declaring what has been obvious for some time: that TED is no longer a responsible curator of ideas “worth spreading.” Instead it has become something ludicrous, and a little sinister.
"Today TED is an insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering—a place where ideas, regardless of their quality, go to seek celebrity, to live in the form of videos, tweets, and now e-books. In the world of TED—or, to use their argot, in the TED “ecosystem”—books become talks, talks become memes, memes become projects, projects become talks, talks become books—and so it goes ad infinitum in the sizzling Stakhanovite cycle of memetics, until any shade of depth or nuance disappears into the virtual void. Richard Dawkins, the father of memetics, should be very proud. Perhaps he can explain how “ideas worth spreading” become “ideas no footnotes can support.” "

And, later: "Brevity may be the soul of wit, or of lingerie, but it is not the soul of analysis."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://mindhacks.com/2012/07/06/made-for-pr-neuroscience/">
    <title>Made for PR Neuroscience « Mind Hacks</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-14T16:35:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mindhacks.com/2012/07/06/made-for-pr-neuroscience/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What’s interesting is that simply making something appear like a neuroscience study is enough to get it and the associated product in the news – to the point where companies can now base their business model on the practice.
"Neuromarketing is the study of the neuroscience of marketing – a genuinely interesting field that, contrary to what neuromarketing companies will have you believe, has absolutely no practical benefit at the moment because no-one has yet demonstrated that a neural response is a better predictor of the key outcomes than a behavioural response.
"This, however, is more like neuro-spin-marketing, as it relies on people believing the hype of neuromarketing to get branded pseudo-studies into the media."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com/2012/03/historicizing-conservative-think-tank.html">
    <title>U.S. Intellectual History: Historicizing the Conservative Think Tank by Jason Stahl</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-13T14:16:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://us-intellectual-history.blogspot.com/2012/03/historicizing-conservative-think-tank.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This history is truly what makes the lamentations of present-day conservatives for a conservative think tank (or think tanks in general) dedicated to rigorous policy development so hard to accept. In the sixties and seventies conservatives in places like AEI, the Heritage Foundation, and the Cato Institute did more than anyone else to discredit the idea of policy making as a social-scientific endeavor. Instead, policy debates became primarily concerned with political identities and political combat and provided the foundation for the elite media discourse within which Americans live today, where “balancing” public policy debates between “two sides” in a “marketplace of ideas” effectively takes precedence over policy content and, dare I say, truth.
"Likewise, this history makes the lamentations of Julian Sanchez at Cato equally hard to have sympathy for. As the brief history I’ve outlined here suggests, the political subjectivities and biases of the wealthy funders of conservative think tanks were integral to the success of these institutions. Obviously, such monies were used to develop the institutional infrastructure, but even more importantly their biases and subjectivities were used as a way to change and enter public policy debates. So, it is hard to feel sorry for those at Cato who are now lamenting what Koch may or may not do to the institution. When the history of the institution is wrapped up in a project which uses the biases of wealth funders to gain power and change the way people discuss politics and public policy, you can hardly be angry when those funders want to change the political identity that you’re promoting.
"And this, ultimately, is what the debate at Cato is about. Since it has been a long time since the technocratic ideal held (if it ever truly did—that is a discussion for another post) this is not a debate between one side that wants an institution dedicated to Republican Party political combat (Koch) and one side that wants rigorous truth-seeking and a development of policies that “work” (people like Sanchez at Cato). No, it is instead the battle that conservatives (in think tanks and elsewhere) have been wanting for the last four decades—a battle of identities in a political marketplace. Who will win: the millionaire who is seeking to “re-brand his product” or the old-school libertarian brand? According to the narrative conservatives have been offering us, only “the market” can decide."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/jonathan-chait-why-im-so-mean.html">
    <title>Why I’m So Mean -- Daily Intel</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-09T04:32:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/jonathan-chait-why-im-so-mean.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" But it’s not a philosophical dispute. It’s a simple case of her making up false claims based on extremely elementary errors.
And this is why I am forced to be so mean. There are just a lot of people out there exerting significant influence over the political debate who are totally unqualified. The dilemma is especially acute in the political economic field, where wealthy right-wingers have pumped so much money to subsidize the field of pro-rich people polemics that the demand for competent defenders of letting rich people keep as much of their money as possible vastly outstrips the supply. Hence the intellectual marketplace for arguments that we should tax rich people less is glutted with hackery. "]]></description>
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    <title>xkcd: Citogenesis</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-16T13:06:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://xkcd.com/978/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>natural_history_of_truthiness cartoons funny:geeky why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_academic_publishing_system cumulative_advantage to_teach:complexity-and-inference xkcd</dc:subject>
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    <title>Hack pollster Doug Schoen illustrates a general point: The #1 way to lie with statistics is . . . to just lie! « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-27T15:32:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://andrewgelman.com/2011/10/the-1-way-to-lie-with-statistics-is-to-just-lie/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>statistics us_politics natural_history_of_truthiness running_dogs_of_reaction occupy_wall_street</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/legends-of-the-rentiers/">
    <title>Legends Of The Rentiers - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-17T23:20:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/legends-of-the-rentiers/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["And as you’ll notice, in both cases the imaginary history just happened to be one more comfortable to status quo interests.  I don’t want to go all Chomsky here, but this sort of thing really can radicalize you."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2011/05/03/scoring-the-pundits/">
    <title>Scoring the pundits — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-08T19:34:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2011/05/03/scoring-the-pundits/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So, although the development of even rudimentary forms of audit is a great boon to the democratic public (and probably a lot more so than yet another inconclusive study of “media bias” one way or the other), I think it needs to be taken with two caveats. The biggest villain is not the guy who gets it wrong. The people who will cost you money and reputation over the long run are first, the guy who says he’s more certain than he really is, and second, the guy who won’t admit he’s wrong when he knows he is. "
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    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2011/03/17/a-simple-model-of-disagreement-among-economists/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["So what does this predict? Like Blinder’s aphorism, it suggests that we will observe a broad empirical correlation between the extent of disagreement among economists, and the involvement of economists in political disputes. ‘Eat your greens’ propositions that are popular among economists, but more or less equally uncongenial to all political actors in a given system will, as in Blinder’s formulation, be systematically ignored. But economists’ influence will not be particularly high when they disagree with each other, since different economists arguing for different sides of the political debate will at least partially cancel each other out. It will be far higher on those rare and fleeting occasions when economists unite in favor of the one or the other side actively participating in a political debate. I note as a postscript that this toy model contains a simple public choice explanation for the emergence of public choice. Drawing this out is left as an exercise for the reader."
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    <title>The Roots of the Vaccine Panic</title>
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    <link>http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_roots_of_the_vaccine_panic</link>
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    <title>What Borat and the Service/Professional Economy Can Teach Us About The Latest Round of Right-Wing Taping Faux-Scandals. « Rortybomb</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["the Borat humor is taking people whose jobs are to behave a certain way under a familiar, professionalized script and then start acting like a weirdo. ... They all try to keep to their scripts while the person opposite of them acts like a buffoon,,,, instead of going “stop acting like a buffoon.” ... These right-wing videos take this and amplify a particularly interesting part of the service/professionalized economy. When so much of our economy is driven by professionals there is a lot of work done in making sure that there are layers of people between the consumer and the professional. ... You don’t want the expensive brain surgeon making sure you’ve filled out your address and contact information correctly or taking your temperature – that’s why there’s a secretary and a nurse in-between these steps at the hospital.What the right-wing videos do ... is present the front-line staff as the actual decision making professionals. ..."
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    <dc:date>2010-12-24T17:45:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/12/crisis-of-the-public-intellectual/68502/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Much of what we're discussing is [that] academia has, to some extent by its own actions, been cleaved away from public life. I hesitate to speak on television about the Civil War, because there are people who've made this the work of their life--actual experts--who should be speaking on this. But I also recoil at the notion of a host looking at me and saying, "John Brown--good guy or bad, guy? Go." I imagine the experts who I admire feel the same way.
As in all things, I don't write this to offer a definitive answer here. My sense is that the reluctance among people like me--and people smarter than me--to engage is as problematic as the form itself."
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