This describes many "consensuses" in social psychology (including but not not just politicized ones). "Consensus" is a political argument. Validity and strength of underlying evidence is a scientific argument. https://twitter.com/Jon_StewartMill/status/1020094940167254022 …
There's lots of climate science surveys too with congruent results. That consensus is real enough. You can survey people and control for political imbalance in the results.
-
-
oh boy. I was not intending to contest the reality of that consensus -- or of its conclusions. my only pt was that there can be a diff b/w consensus as "what most scientists believe" and as "what most of the articles say."
-
And the question that’s hard to answer about dissenters in surveys is: have they read the relevant primary literature and simply don’t agree with the prevailing interpretation, or are they experiencing the same distorted perceptions of salience & prevalence that laypeople do?
-
Use publication record in the model.
End of conversation
New conversation
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.