Thanks, that helps a lot to put it in context!

With the bonus incentive to achieve fluency in Danish within three years!

When less (communication) is more (collective intelligence) Team work, complex problems, and preserving diversity in the ecosystem of ideas

Monday boost for yesterday's newsletter, looking at whether we can discern general principles for how to connect teams to make them smarter:

https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/when-less-communication-is-more-collective

#Psychology #CogSci #CollectiveIntelligence

I believe it is. Did you read Returning to Rheims? The ending of that book expresses what i was thinking of when i wrote that?

Hi Robert - thanks for this!

is there any option to collect in person?

where can I pick up a copy in Sheffield please?

broken link?

separately, where can I pick up a copy in Sheffield please?

Anyone can say they are open-minded, but how can you prove it? We show how the 'Ideological Turing Test' can be used to measure mutual understanding across controversial topics (and the result suggest people who disagree may understand each other better than we expect) […]

Community Notes require a Community How we used a novel analysis to understand what causes people to quit the widely adopted content-moderation system

New newsletter! Understanding participation in the X Community Notes system, via my love of data visualisation and stronger causal inference methods!

#DataViz #CausalInference #FactChecking #CommunityNotes

https://open.substack.com/pub/tomstafford/p/community-notes-require-a-community

I like how you roll!

yes, that was my immediate thought too!

there must be some kind of estimate you can make, but i don't know off the top of my head how to make it

sure, if you want to calculate the uncertainty! The original poll reports absolute figures, without uncertainty estimates, which is why the graph of the poll also lacks them

Could be, how are you thinking?

Just seen this. I have a hilariously similar tale to tell about tech support in our house!

TIL that i don't see replies to my posts from #bluesky (where my posts appear thanks to the bridge)

Anyone know a fix?

Bluesky followers - sorry for ignoring you!

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