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Facebook Meme FallaciesSince social media has become a very prevalent form of communication via the written word, I was just curious if anyone in the group has thought about what the most common fallacy employed on social media might be. I am new to the site and refer to it almost daily. I've read through the top 25 and when I get some down time I will take the on-line course. I can spot flaws in reasoning easy enough. Being able to name and describe them is the tough part - making this website invaluable to me. Thanks!
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| asked on Monday, Jul 04, 2016 03:17:03 AM by Tony Baker | |
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More of a cognitive bias than a logical fallacy (although there is much crossover), I would say by far the biggest problem with reasoning on Facebook is the confirmation bias . This often occurs when:
This creates what has become known as an "echo chamber" that shelters people from different perspectives and tends to make people more extreme in their views. This is a big problem today with social media. |
| answered on Monday, Jul 04, 2016 10:36:33 AM by Bo Bennett, PhD |
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Dr. Bennett - thank you so much. I think you are correct. I believe social media made it easier for the country to become more divided / polarized. I see cognitive dissonance and "the back-fire effect" on full display every day. People substitute critical thinking and reasoning and evaluating the voracity of ideas with dispassionate objective standards for "source." George Will once commented to another pundit on a Sunday morning talk show, "You are a pyromaniac in a field of straw men." If someone has decided they will never trust a certain source, nothing they can say will ever matter.
Social media has made "reasoning" harder. |
| answered on Tuesday, Jul 05, 2016 01:51:03 AM by Tony Baker |
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