Volume Bias
Episode description
In the words of the legendary Terry Pratchett, in the Discworld novel The Truth:
“A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth has had a chance to get its boots on.”
Or from one of my favorite bands, The Protomen in their song, “The Hounds”:
“When I say he was a monster
When I set fire to his name
It does not matter where you hear it from
Whether truth or lies, it gets said all the same
…
Whatever’s on the table plays!”
Volume bias
I’ve been on a kick recently about a propensity for us to misunderstand or misrepresent people who aren’t in our tribe. And how BS gets amplified.
In “How to casually radicalize a citizen,” we talked about how people with less-than-awesome intent can easily (and do) create a stream of the worst of the opposition. You can see this and then get a bit radicalized yourself, as we see.
But this is happening passively, too. I call it VOLUME BIAS.
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