Interesting results: people are more likely to believe fake news from a stranger than a from good friend.
This finding would be explained if people intuitively apply the three questions we suggest in our book to assess any claim:
1. Who is telling me this?
2. How do they know it?
3. What are they trying to sell me?
You know what your friends don't have a way of knowing (and often, what they're selling you). With a stranger, these are harder questions to answer.
Makes me think?🧪
Could some outliers in a population have a purpose? 🤔
The problem is picking the right outliers to form an accurate representation of accuracy in today’s world.
They need to be multi-cultural for world view philosophical perspective .
They need to be able to operate independently but as a unit to form a more cohesive adaptable lens.
You have to be able to know who to trust, how to expand your perspective, humility is one of life’s greatest teachers.🥰
The key is to do your own research.
But, people are lazy and will not do that.
Yet, they will repeat the misinfo or disinfo.
The more people know me, the more they ignore what i say 😀
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I witnessed that firsthand in the last three jobs I had over the past 30 or so years. More than once at one of them.
@ct_bergstrom "Illustration by Midjourney" at the bottom of the article instantly made me trust the author rather less than I initially did.
With that said, was very interesting and worth a read, thanks.
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