Why do you think destroying public education is a key right wing priority?
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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I’m sure this is an important article and all, but good god that title is confusing.
Why are we always making titles like Yoda is saying it?
Putting the attention-grabbing part first means people are more likely to keep reading after the first word or two. A sea of "Study suggests ____" or "Report states _____" won't direct as many views to the stories the users are interested in reading. This is particularly true when the headline may be truncated by aggregator sites or mobile notifications but works for paper as well when parts might be hidden behind other items at a news stand.
Hmm. Clicks, it does generate. Yeess!
This study is an agent-based simulation:
The researchers used a type of math called “agent-based modeling” to simulate how people’s opinions change over time. They focused on a model where individuals can believe the truth, the fake information, or remain undecided. The researchers created a network of connections between these individuals, similar to how people are connected on social media.
They used the binary agreement model to understand the “tipping point” (the point where a small change can lead to significant effects) and how disinformation can spread.
Personally, I love agent-based models. I think agent modeling is a very, very powerful tool for systems insight, but I don't like this article's interpretation, nor am I convinced the author of this article really groks what agent-based modeling really is. It's a very different kind of "study" than what most people mean when they use that word, and interpreting the insights is its own can of worms.
Just a heads up, for those of you casually scrolling by.
To summarise, agent based analysis is closer to comparative analysis than objective analysis, and is best used for analysing systems with too many variables for comprehensive objective analysis.
But the people forcing censorship and bans have no interest in having people be more critical.. Keeping them stupid and brainwashing them is the goal. This study misses the point
It's a simulation, not really a study.
I mean, the sentiment makes sense, but if the answer is to teach more kids to think critically, we have an uphill battle. Something tells me that republican legislatures are already very aware of this sentiment as evidenced by all of the book banning a we are seeing in states across the country.
Honesty, in these dire circumstances, we need both tools.
I would like to see history tests no longer ask exact dates and instead ask WHY something happened. Why Japan chose to attack Pearl Harbor is a much more thought provoking question than what day Pearl Harbor got attacked.
Yeah though I think filling in timelines of correlated events is also important as are certain time gaps or how short or long something was. Maybe the fact that cowboys and Victorians were Meji era, doesn’t need mentioned, but understanding that they were less than a lifetime away from the era of American piracy does give an understanding of how the colonialism that both were able to achieve with minimal losses using new industrial technology and how that influenced WWI.
I bet this will have an impact on the same crowd who insists upon abstinence-only sex education to prevent unintended pregnancy, they're usually receptive to research and data.
No fucking shit.
Well, reality isn't always intuitive, so it's good to double check like this.