1: All of the focus on "fake news" is good. And journalists, actual journalists as opposed to liars, have a key responsibility to ...
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for disbelieving THE FACT when in fact they disagree with the resulting opinion. Many people being yelled at for "denying facts" 2/
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don't have a good handle on this, so they start to disbelieve arguments that look like "some facts, therefore some conclusion" 3/
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but of course every argument has that shape. So people start conflating "global warming is real" with "unemployment is down, 4/
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therefore you're better off". Then they say "Trump voters don't understand the basic facts of unemployment" when they 5/
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really mean "Trump voters disbelieve the statement that the economy is getting better FOR THEM because it doesn't feel true" 6/
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there are still major biases (voters flipping opinions on the economy a day after election) but conflating Facts with 7/
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"my conclusion about what the fact should mean to you" is incredibly corrosive to our ability to make progress on things that 8/
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really ARE about true things (global warming, incidents of police brutality, etc) 9/9
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This is a failure to expose the underlying model behind conclusions. Journalists should expose the model.
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yep, but it's way easier to say "Y U NO FACTS, RUBES!"
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if I had a nickel for every time someone said "don't they know unemployment was down"...
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How do we create a platform for model comparison, and get politicians to expose their models w/o missing "externalities"?
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"Gotcha politics" is about finding externalities and invalidating someone else's model because of them.
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What "left"? Are you referring to the slightly less rightwing contingent that goes by that designation?
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I simply berate for sport
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