One of social media's worst effects. 1-Find single case. 2-Pretend it represents a huge thing. 3-Put it down. 4-Go viral in echo chamber... https://twitter.com/jesseberney/status/805242662005641217 …
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It's not you. It's not this case. It's just what happens. Everyone's doing this. It shifts the whole ecology to self-blindness.
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Replying to @zeynep @JesseBerney
I guess I did this a few years ago, too? I now believe this should not be done in any public forum; it is blinding us all.
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Replying to @zeynep
But isn't that kind of like a "qualitative pull-out"? (Or maybe those are just for academic papers?)
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Replying to @dfreelon
Randomized pull-out, yeay, as better representing social media. This is selecting on the dependent variable type pull-out.
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Replying to @zeynep
There's nothing wrong with picking something that's illustrative, *if* it is indeed illustrative.
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Replying to @dfreelon
Absolutely. So little work goes into figuring out *if* something is illustrative; and so easy to keep picking same type example.
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Replying to @zeynep
I find posts that get thousands of shares/RTs incredibly telling... not the only thing that matters but a major indicator
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Replying to @dfreelon
Yes; and in my case the claim is that tweets that unrepresentatively ridicule or define "the other" gets 1000s of RTs/shares.
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Replying to @zeynep
Interesting that what goes viral is the mocking frame, not the original sentiment.
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This is so super common in so many countries that it is painful; it democratized a bad media impulse aka "bullshit trend story".
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