Re:Dr. Levitt: Your words have power. Use them carefully
by kube-system on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:21PM
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Successful public figures typically write with their particular audience in mind, and often hire others to help them do this effectively, and in a way their audience understands and does not misinterpret. There are entire career disciplines that focus almost exclusively on this skill.
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Re:Dr. Levitt: Your words have power. Use them carefully
by sn on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @02:22PM
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Public figures need to be sensitive to motivated reasoning https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/motivated-reasonin... by the general public when they post. Looking at:
https://twitter.com/MLevitt_NP2013/status/130176837049748275...
What if he had ended this tweet with "But: I will take any FDA approved vaccine." ?
Except - he was at exactly 280 characters, so he couldn't have added this without removing other text, or doing a multi-tweet message.
https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/69/4/345/55470... says "We show that doubling the permissible length of a tweet led to less uncivil, more polite, and more constructive discussions online."
Maybe the character limits inherent in platforms like twitter cause many of the problems we're seeing right now, because people literally don't have the words to explain themselves.