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Oft times we see accusations of "group think" here on SoylentNews. Now there is some actual science on the formation and function of "echo chambers", as reported by SESYNC:
A new study from researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) and the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) demonstrates that the highly contentious debate on climate change is fueled in part by how information flows throughout policy networks.
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"Our research shows how the echo chamber can block progress toward a political resolution on climate change. Individuals who get their information from the same sources with the same perspective may be under the impression that theirs is the dominant perspective, regardless of what the science says," said Dr. Dana R. Fisher, a professor of sociology at UMD and corresponding author who led the research.
I would guess, based on this study abstract (actual paper unfortunately behind paywall), that SoylentNews is in no danger of becoming an echo chamber, but we seem to have some refugees who are still stuck in particular bubbles.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @05:34AM
Certainly is subjective. Human's are self-rationalising animals, so essentially you have to keep banging on and on at a subject until they realise they are using the "alarmist" part of their brains when they should be using logic with a healthy dose of skepticism. Learn to judge risks and determine when someone is lying for their self-interest.
Just today the Republicans are diverting 7+ billion of research cash away from these airy-fairy "studies" and back into hard sciences.
So good news - we'll soon be reading fewer of these one-sided studies which only seek to boost illogical arguments as fact while "their enemy" is discussing science and cause-and-effect and dressing down 'facts' as logical fallacies which even serve to break Newton's first law of motion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @05:40AM
What would convince you personally that danger was imminent and the best way to avoid it is drastic reduction in tropospheric co2? They need some kind of feat to be performed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @06:05AM
And look, you Republican Exxon dupe, there are more of us than there are of you, so our subjective is the new objective! Got that? Do we have to personally beat you upside the head with science courses and math and climate modelling? Once again, your "giant" ad hominem is tiny, miniscule, at best 3%!! So, your echo chamber is wrong. No matter how strong the echoes, still wrong. NO! Wrong. Good day.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 28 2015, @06:27AM
These are some good examples of latroscience.