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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 26

      eigenrobot Retweeted Megan McArdle

      uncharacteristically i disagree with Megan she is basically suggesting a bluecheck purge but I think shining light on how our Experts and Journalists operate and reach consensus has been quite instructive to everyonehttps://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1354062586149548034 …

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      Megan McArdleVerified account @asymmetricinfo
      Anyway, thanks for reading, as usual, this is just a little teaser for a column that makes the point in much more depth. That column is here and I urge you to read it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/22/its-time-major-institutions-make-their-employees-get-off-twitter/ …
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    2. Megan McArdle‏Verified account @asymmetricinfo Jan 26
      Replying to @eigenrobot

      In fact, as I argue in the piece, groupthink makes groups more extreme than they were. It is not shining a light on a pre-existing issue, so much as exacerbating the problem. (And yes, I've worked in newsrooms pre- and post-Twitter.)

      2 replies 1 retweet 23 likes
    3. Megan McArdle‏Verified account @asymmetricinfo Jan 26
      Replying to @asymmetricinfo @eigenrobot

      As with many datapoints, what you think you've discovered is actually an artifact of the observation process.

      1 reply 2 retweets 15 likes
      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 26
      Replying to @asymmetricinfo

      I'm somewhat less concerned about ideological conformity among journalists and public experts than I am about them being really bad at their jobs. :/

      6:16 AM - 26 Jan 2021
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        2. joshua‏ @BlackJJosh Jan 26
          Replying to @eigenrobot @asymmetricinfo

          I don’t know if they’re actually bad at their jobs or if they just have a fundamentally different understanding of what their job IS than I do. Suspect mix of both.

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        3. Ray Doraisamy‏ @forshaper Jan 26
          Replying to @BlackJJosh @eigenrobot @asymmetricinfo

          I suspect they're doing their jobs extra well, even though they probably have the same explicit misunderstanding about their jobs as you do.

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        1. Nathan Lewis‏ @nlewi285 Jan 26
          Replying to @eigenrobot @asymmetricinfo

          Strong correlation between those two

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