#Groupthink

Alex T Magaisa 🇿🇼

Wamagaisa

Groupthink - a thread 1. Imagine where you are in a group & someone asks what is 3 + 3? You know the answer is 6. But everyone in the

DMH

DavidMHobson

CONSPIRACY THEORY THREADIf you use the word“conspiracy theorist” to describe someone who questions a narrative...... Or challenges an “expert”Then YOU are the idiot.You are probably - Naive - Ignorant of

Querencia

63Querencia

Beware groupthink and bandwagon bias. Beware the dangerous cauldron of groupthink that exists here on Twitter. Wrong doesn't become right because it's accepted by a majority. Are you thinking critically

Grummz

Grummz

People are upset with the unnecessary changes in game remasters like Mass Effect. Dismissing it as “Gamer wants bewbs” ignores the underlying issue.History is getting rewritten, dictionaries rewritten, and yes,

Kate

katewand

1/ “The human inclination toward conformity aids hysteria spread. Indeed, groupthink helps to explain the phenomenon of mass hysteria.Mass hysteria can be considered to be a form of groupthink.”... 2/

Jim Dickinson

jim_dickinson

I really have read it all now. Today the Times previews a speech that @MichaelBarber9 will give at King's on diversity of perspective. Much of the report covers remarks that

Kassandra Seven

KassandraSeven

Can We Deprogram Trumpism? “Dangerous groupthink thrives on secrecy and wants its members disconnected from non-believers. If they have no connection to anyone outside, they move further away from reality”https://www.damemagazine.com/20

zeynep tufekci

zeynep

Good coverage of the latest messaging disaster, in a year with many. We are dramatically underselling the amazing vaccines, exaggrating the uncertainties and people trying to emphasize the good news

The End Times

TheAgeofShoddy

Yglesias was the front man for a highly-capitalized wonk shop predicated on the idea of intellectuals having the capacity to rapidly change the way people live through influencing top-down policy.

Ben Bradley MP

BBradley_Mans

The comparisons with #Orwell & 1984 now too numerous to ignore. It's something of a parody of a prediction of course (you hope), but the early days of #IngSoc and

Virginia Heffernan

page88

A word about intellectual diversity and dissent.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/substack-and-medias-groupthink-problem/617102/ When I was in graduate school at Harvard, I failed the oral exams on the grounds that I was too

I Am My Best

IAmMyBestToday

We all have a unique path and therefore not one of us is exactly like another. Yet, we tend to become conditioned in our society that we need to be,

Luke Johnson

LukeJohnsonRCP

I am disappointed that senior industrialists and business leaders are so weak and supine in face of every new govt diktat on lockdown and CV19. List of sectors facing devastation

Jason Okundaye

jasebyjason

The way Black & Brown Tories choose maximum public distress when engaged on racism is a disgrace. Priti Patel crying that she’s being “silenced” by BAME Labour MPs. Bim Afolami

Capel Lofft

CapelLofft

Total, all encompassing groupthink within academic/'intellectual' publishing - where the acceptable political opinions range from 'far left' to 'hyperliberal left' - is leading to a narrowing range of debate, which

Hector Drummond, Stay Home. Die Slowly Inside.

hector_drummond

So a friend of my wife's came around for a visit today. She thinks the lockdown is mad. What's very interesting, though, is that she worked for years for PHE,

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