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1 Conceptions and Misconceptions
MIT Media Lab Conceptions and Misconceptions September, 2018

2 Context: Polarization
We are in a highly polarized society. Daniel Hopkins will talk more about some aspects of this, with respect to national issues dominating. They may be inherently more polarizing. It plays out from voting booths to dinner tables. Propaganda may reinforce, as may frictionless access. Isolation certainly hurts. Viral Communications September 2018 Andrew Lippman

3 Communications My sense is that trust to the extent we demonstrate it is migrating to networks from institutions. Viral Communications September 2018 Andrew Lippman

4 Networks 2001 Giuliani: America’s mayor Giuliani: Trump’s pit bull Viral Communications September 2018 Andrew Lippman

5 Who Else Says So? Strangers in Their Own Land, Hochschild We are in line for the American dream and undeserving people are cutting ahead… The Politics of Resentment, Cramer The city people have all the power, the money, and the don’t respect us… Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Piketty The divide is getting worse and won’t likely improve Plus: Bowling Alone, Putnam, 2000; What’s the matter with Kansas, Frank, 2004 Vosoughi: Bad news travels fast The Social science is analytical but less prescriptive. We are MIT, we build. SO what do we build? But you know all this Viral Communications September 2018 Andrew Lippman

6 So Why the Abstruse Readings?
Confirmation bias: We accept more of what we believe Confidence bias: We think we are right more often than we are Baseline fallacy: We are misled by the specific (Conjunction fallacy) and… Some of what is influencing people is based in behavioral economics and psychology. Kahneman and Tversky catalogued and quantified some of this. Now it is a tool. Can we make it cut both ways? How do we change deeply held views? Viral Communications September 2018 Andrew Lippman

7 Gigerenzer: Frequentists v Probabalists
“Which city is larger, Islamabad or Hyderabad? “How confident are you in your answer? Example 1. Contrast this with taking a 20 question test and guessing your grade. Most get that right. Viral Communications September 2018 Andrew Lippman

8 Gigerenzer: Frequentists v Probabalists
Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in antinuclear demonstrations. Which of these two alternatives is more probable? (a) Linda is a bank teller (b) Linda is a bank teller and active in the feminist movement Simple error: A conjunction has to be less probable. But we rely on the specifics. Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken and very bright. She majored in philosophy. As a student, she was deeply concerned with issues of discrimination and social justice, and also participated in antinuclear demonstrations. There are 100 people who fit the description above. How many of them are: (a) bank tellers (b) bank tellers and active in the feminist movement Viral Communications September 2018 Andrew Lippman

9 Last example Baseline fallacy
The prevalence of breast cancer is 1% (in a specified population). A mammography gives a positive result in 80% of women with breast cancer, and in 10% of women without breast cancer. What is the probability that a woman who tests positive actually has breast cancer? _____% This makes a lot clear. First one identifies with the breast cancer victim. Baseline fallacy Viral Communications September 2018 Andrew Lippman

10 Obama’s Lost Army Actions, respect, grassroots
Facebook’s 61 million person test People follow celebrities Canvassing works We are in a highly polarized society. Daniel Hopkins will talk more about this Actions, respect, grassroots Viral Communications September 2018 Andrew Lippman

11 Our Job: Design, Test, Learn
Projects will require all sorts of contributions: coding, data gathering, field work, analysis, writeup. Most of all, sweat and time. If there are resources needed, we can talk about that individually. Not all data is free. There are various means of testing, etc. External influence, Lost Army redux Viral Communications September 2018 Andrew Lippman

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