CIRCE @ CrisiScience (Oct 02021)

 CIRCE @ CrisiScience

15 Oct 02021

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Attended a great webinar:

`IMMUNITY CORPS'

or

`DISINFORMATION MITIGATION: There's a Science for that!'

Synopsis:

Dr. Andy Norman of Carnegie Mellon, author of Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind-Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think, will address strategies for dealing with misinformation and disinformation.
Immunity Corps: How the Emerging Science of Mental Immunity Can Protect Us From Cognitive Contagion

Researchers have found that the mind’s idea-filtration system behaves like the body’s immune system. Can we study its workings and learn how to prevent the spread of extremist ideologies, conspiracy theories, and science denial? And what can “cognitive immunology” teach us about how to communicate science? Dispatches from an exciting scientific frontier.

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& more about, Andy Norman's CIRCE

https://cognitiveimmunology.net/

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The typo in Steve's title page is intentional :) (Factal, not Fractal :)Like rounding up pi.


















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Random NOTES I took:

Over 200 cognitive biases (...CAN'T be wrong!!!  :)

Bayesians vs Frequentists
Poor Richard's Almanack - the original Twitter (...before there were: Twits)
Clarifying questions really help a dialog! (see: Plato's skillful use of clarifying Q's)
`Think Again' (the book) - re: motivational interviewing

1) Infections (illness)2) Addictions (dependency)3) Seduction (fulfilling basic desires)
...Suitcases with wheels! (N.B.: Combine 2 old things...)
McGuire, Lewandowski, et al...
& Lee McIntyre notes:
5 HABITS of HIGHLY [UN] SUCCESSFUL THINKERS:- cherry-picking evidence- conspiracy thinking- illogical- fake `experts'- other side has to be perfect

Nice phrase by Steve: ..."peer-reviewed by `the college of curmudgeons'"
`gray info': anecdata
...the danger of `only humans in the loop' = confirmation bias!

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Anyway, great webinar. I learned a lot!

&

For more, see:

https://cognitiveimmunology.net/

and...

I can highly recommend, Andy's new book:  Mental Immunity  (2021) !

Mental Immunity  (out now: as of May 18th 2021)

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