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recent bookmarks from jerrykingOpinion | University of Chicago Graduates: Go Forth and Argue2023-06-04T15:10:21+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/opinion/free-speech-campus.html
jerrykingagreeably_disagree alumni argumentation Bet_Stephens cancel_culture censorship change_your_mind codes_of_conduct collective_intelligence Colleges_&_Universities commencement courage culture difficult_conversations disagreeableness disagreements dual-consciousness free_speech groupthink intellectual_diversity listening opposing_actions pairs preference_falsification principles protests Robert_McNamara Salman_Rushdie self-scrutiny speaking_out speeches students think_differently think_for_yourself traitor_to_one's_class uChicago valueshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e846a62b8a8e/Some gripes about groupthink2021-06-04T17:08:42+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/6d821e56-64f3-4c59-84de-723b15dfc743
jerryking>finding common ground<< to chat about.......A theme in Charlan Nemeth’s No! The Power of Disagreement In A World That Wants To Get Along is that while dissent leads to better, more robust decisions, it also leads to discomfort and even distress. Disagreement is valuable but agreement feels so much more comfortable.......The first and simplest solutions to the problem of groupthink, is to embrace decision-making processes that require disagreement: appoint a “devil’s advocate” whose job is to be a contrarian, or practise “red-teaming”, with an internal group whose task is to play the role of hostile actors (hackers, invaders or simply critics) and to find vulnerabilities......The evidence suggests that red-teaming works better than having a devil’s advocate, perhaps because dissent needs strength in numbers..........A more fundamental reform is to ensure that there is a real diversity of skills, experience and perspectives in the room: the screwdrivers and the saws as well as the hammers. This seems to be murderously hard [i.e. = "hard work"]........When it comes to social interaction, the aphorism is wrong: opposites do not attract. We unconsciously surround ourselves with like-minded people [i.e. = "kindred spirits"]...........The right groups, with the right processes, can make excellent decisions. But most of us don’t join groups to make better decisions. We join them because we want to belong. Groupthink persists because groupthink >>feels good<<.
]]>Tim_Harford agreeably_disagree biases contrarians decision_making devil’s_advocates group_dynamics hard_work heterogeneity homogeneity meetings misfits polarization political_polarization red_teams self-censorship speaking_out troublemakers unshared_information books difficult_conversations disagreements discomforts dissension frictions grouping groupthink homophily independent_viewpoints Cass_Sunstein Charlan_Nemeth kindred_spirits cohesiveness disagreeableness ostracism ridicule opposing_viewpoints feel_good finding_common_groundhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:2b3096398f5f/Why we should have the courage to disagree2020-01-31T17:51:14+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/cc0bffd0-41bb-11ea-a047-eae9bd51ceba
jerrykingbooks courage disagreements discomforts dissension frictions grouping group_dynamics hard_work heterogeneity Tim_Harford difficult_conversations troublemakers candour independent_viewpoints meetings agreeably_disagree unshared_information speaking_out traitor_to_one's_classhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:2a59a189bc3d/Six rules for managing our era’s oversupply of non-stop news, high-decibel outrage2019-05-13T05:01:15+00:00
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-six-rules-for-managing-our-eras-oversupply-of-non-stop-news-high/
jerryking21st._century agreeably_disagree ambivalence commoditization_of_information disagreements disinformation empathy hard_choices incivility information_overload news opinions open_mind outrage partial_truths partisanship partisan_loyalty political_spin propaganda rules_of_the_game dual-consciousness incompatibilities indecision indifference you_can’t_please_everyone hyper-partisanship different_perspectiveshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:74a5fa84f27c/The country is frighteningly polarized. This is why.2017-06-18T14:23:59+00:00
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-dont-just-think-the-other-side-is-wrong-anymore--we-think-theyre-immoral/2017/06/15/f218c3e4-5207-11e7-be25-3a519335381c_story.html
jerrykingpolitical_polarization Fareed_Zakaria identity_politics gender race ethnicity sexual_orientation partisanship Julius_Caesar social_classes blue-collar disagreements rural voters electorate political_correctness agreeably_disagree cancel_culture fractured_internallyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:bc87f54dcde8/Kelly: Sports scribes take themselves seriously at their own peril - The Globe and Mail2014-07-30T17:24:08+00:00
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/kelly-scribes-take-themselves-seriously-at-their-own-peril/article19816612/#dashboard/follows/
jerrykingChristopher_Hitchens sports journalists journalism Cathal_Kelly disagreements argumentation divisiveness sports_journalism agreeably_disagree logic_&_reasoning bombastichttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:30a59133d392/Teaching High School Students Applied Logical Reasoning2011-11-16T13:05:58+00:00
http://jite.org/documents/Vol8/JITEv8IIP001-016Bouhnik681.pdf
jerrykinghigh_schools students logic_&_reasoning life_skills education critical_thinking decision_making Junior_Achievement information_overload rhetoric rapid_change agreeably_disagree argumentation commoditization_of_information disagreementshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:4a63c42b117e/Why conversation is as important to a marriage as sex ProQuest2011-06-12T10:50:31+00:00
http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/pqdweb?did=1056235161&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=1525&RQT=309&VName=PQD
jerryking>low-key<<
conversation [i.e. = "small talk"] is to a good marriage, they can sense when a husband and wife still respect and listen to what the other says..."sex is very important, but that mutual respect for your mate and what they think is
the most important. You don't have to agree on things [i.e.= "agreeably_disagree"] -- as a matter of fact, I think good conversation often comes from the disagreement," family therapist Diane Moody says...Psychiatrist Cathi Borsook, says conversation "is perhaps the major way couples find closeness with each other." If conversation doesn't happen, even on a banal and casual basis, there's little >>intimacy<< on any level...adds therapist Diane Moody, " good conversation is an adventure and you have to plan it a little by reading and thinking. In that way, I can see that it can be compared to sex [i.e. reference the Dan Savage quote about good sex]-- it takes good communication, a wish to please, some planning and some creativity to keep it alive."
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a good conversation “involves risk” because you enter it “with a willingness to emerge a slightly different person.”....bring the attitude of questioning – “Why do you think that?” – into discussions.
]]>ProQuest Judith_Timson conversations Communicating_&_Connecting marriage relationships intimacy disagreements respect listening low-key Dan_Savage sex agreeably_disagree small_talkhttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:e4d01830e039/40 ideas we need now -- Unlearning the tyranny of facts2009-05-09T06:19:38+00:00
http://www.thismagazine.ca/issues/2006/11/40ideas.php
jerryking>argument<<, examine issues from different perspectives and differentiate science from >>pseudo-science<<...We are still very focused on facts—arrayed in patterns, conveyed passively, or uncovered more or less predictably through cookbook experimentation and unchallenging exploration. That emphasis seems incongruous. With computers able to store and search vast amounts of information, facts are cheap [i.e. = the Web is really a source of "external knowledge"]...What might the next generation of learners do instead of memorizing facts, you ask? Among other things, they could read and play music. Play more sports. Write prose and poetry. Acquire a skeptic’s toolkit of sound >>reasoning<< skills. Debate highly-charged issues and learn the lost art of rational and respectful discourse. Study inspirational biographies, not to memorize facts, but to promote understanding of how one might lead a more >>meaningful life<<.
[From my own note: the presence of facts does not mean that the truth is present. The "truth" is a more complicated thing than mere facts alone]
]]>ideas critical_thinking rhetoric logic_&_reasoning skepticism uToronto infoliteracy sports poetry public_discourse inspiration biographies disagreements argumentation David_Naylor commoditization_of_information facts agreeably_disagree external_knowledge fact_patterns individual_actions unlearning pseudo-science meaningful_liveshttps://pinboard.in/u:jerryking/b:b3cd71dfe5ee/