"[D]oes a community’s belief system actively undermine the trustworthiness of any outsiders who don’t subscribe to its central dogmas? Then it’s probably an echo chamber... ...An echo chamber doesn’t destroy their members’ interest in the truth; it merely manipulates whom they trust and changes whom they accept as trustworthy sources and institutions. And, in many … Continue reading Echo Chamber Test
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The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Sciences by Kieran Healy
The Plain Person's Guide to Plain Text Social Science is written for graduate students in the social sciences, but useful for any writer. For people not doing sophisticated data analysis, the key suggestions are to use a text editor like Emacs for writing, Markdown for formatting, git—such as on GitLabs—for version control, and a translator … Continue reading The Plain Person’s Guide to Plain Text Social Sciences by Kieran Healy
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