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 …
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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Yeah but that doesn’t explain why he uses this trick. Why there is an assymetry between confirmatory and disconfirmatory evidence (why not just make random shit up?)
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I suspect that he sits on top of a twitter feedback loop, largely ignores msm, and sees what sticks?
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