Polarization isn’t that hard to come by
Polarization isn’t that hard to come by
- October 20, 2016
- Carter Butts, sociology, in the Pacific Standard, Oct. 20, 2016
In an accompanying viewpoint, Carter Butts, a professor of sociology, statistics, and electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Irvine, argues that the model could pave the way for a better understanding of … the perplexing phenomenon known as pluralistic ignorance − the observation that an entire group of people can sometimes share the same belief, while at the same time can remain convinced that no one else agrees with them.
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