What psychologists have termed “assymetric updating.” It’s a common form of disinformation. But why bother quoting the favorable polls? If can ignore the unfavorable ones, why not just make up the favorable ones or act as if they exist even when don’t?https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1050167849845698560 …
More subtly: if our minds work correctly, we will update on every piece of information. If the information we are fed does not sample the ground truth correctly, and we have no way to detect the publication bias, our opinion can always be controlled.
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Sure. But everyone, including trump supporters know he is doing this. I mean he straight out publicly and explicitly announced he is doing this. That’s what makes it so puzzling.
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People without epistemology have no agency over their beliefs, so you can basically collapse them into camps and traits. The people with agency play along because they think it serves their interests.
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