Volume Bias

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 Become a ReConsider Patron … 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.