>Psych 101: If you hear & see something over and over again by multiple (supposedly credible) news agencies, elected officials, actors/actresses, documentaries on TV, movies, internet, social media, foreign press etc. all pushing the same narrative/conclusions…….what happens?
>Do FACT-LESS claims become FACTS in the minds of many?
Availability Cascade.
Weapon of Mass Deception.
“Psychologists have shown that mere repetition can enhance the perceived validity of an interpretation…political candidates repeat the same slogans ad nauseam, hoping to raise the popularity of their positions by making their audiences hear them repeatedly…arguments gain validity by force of repetition…The more a person is exposed to a view, the easier its retrieval from memory and, hence, the less doubtful it appears (availability heuristic).“
>Transparency is the only way forward re: public opinion.
>Transparency is the only way to PROVE TO THE PUBLIC that everything SOLD TO YOU as TRUTH was nothing but a FAKE NARRATIVE DESIGNED TO KEEP, YOU, THE PEOPLE, POWERLESS, AND KEEP THEM, IN CONTROL [I.E. IN POWER].
>Transparency is the only way forward re: public opinion.
Who ‘wrote the book’ on Availability Cascades?
https://twitter.com/timurkuran/status/1094659714347094016
“Civil societies and international organizations, public and private, should expose corruption where it occurs. It would be progress for America (and Europe) to increase protections for actors working to enhance transparency.”
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1036&context=public_law_and_legal_theory
“Availability cascades create serious problems for democracy and raise important issues for democratic theory. They create a danger that apparently democratic outcomes will rest on misinformation and be unrepresentative, in any normatively attractive sense, of citizens’ actual beliefs, desires, and judgments“
“Congress is currently quite vulnerable to availability cascades…partly because its members feel compelled to respond to mass demands for legislation simply to keep their seats, and partly because they have incentives to serve as availability entrepreneurs. One consequence is that when an availability cascade fuels massive demand for acting on a matter under the committee's purview, the members of the committee quickly yield, and legislative action follows…”
“The courts are not immune…Judges are subject to the availability heuristic, vulnerable to informational biases, and responsive to reputational incentives. All this leaves them open to the influences of availability cascades.”
Defense against Availability Cascades?
“The most critical function of peer review is to identify and correct misperceptions spread through availability cascades. While an availability cascade is in progress, and even after it has run its course, peer review can provide an important safeguard…”
Are memes an implementation of Peer Review?
Is 8ch a platform for Peer Review?
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Created by 40.
Strengthened by 41.
Weakened by 42.
Reinvigorated by 45.
https://www.theregreview.org/2019/02/04/levinson-oira-reinvigorated/
Who is Samantha Powers’ husband?
Current Administrator nominated to replace which D.C. Circuit vacancy?
Why is the Data Quality Act important?
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title44/pdf/USCODE-2011-title44-chap35-subchapI-sec3516.pdf
§3516(b)(2)(A)
https://web.archive.org/web/20090205005516/http://www.ombwatch.org/article/archive/231?TopicID=13
REAL OIRA-will you please stand up?
BREYER GROUP.
Georgia.