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This person mentioned “Chand Baori”, a place I had never heard about, a couple of weeks ago so I looked it up and learned about it.
Seeing it featured in the trailer for this film took me by surprise, I had never heard about this movie, or so I thought, but then I realized that I had learned about
December 5, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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Just including more screenshots from the paper to drive home the point:
An excerpt from the paper "A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup Contact Theory" that contradicts the claim made by the book "The Chaos Machine" that contact theory only holds true under certain narrow circumstances; the full excerpt reads: "Results from our analysis also show that intergroup contact effects typically generalize beyond participants in the immediate contact situation. Indeed, the generalization of contact’s effects appears to be far broader than what many past commentators have thought. Not only do attitudes toward the immediate participants usually become more favorable, but so do attitudes toward the entire outgroup, outgroup members in other situations, and even outgroups not involved in the contact. This result enhances the potential of intergroup contact to be a practical, applied means of improving intergroup relations.". An excerpt from the paper "A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup Contact Theory" that contradicts the claim made by the book "The Chaos Machine" that contact theory only holds true under certain narrow circumstances; the full excerpt reads: "At the same time, Allport’s conditions are not essential for intergroup contact to achieve positive outcomes. In particular, we found that samples with no claim to these key conditions still show significant relationships between contact and prejudice. Thus, All port’s conditions should not be regarded as necessary for produc ing positive contact outcomes, as researchers have often assumed in the past. Rather, they act as facilitating conditions that enhance the tendency for positive contact outcomes to emerge.".
November 30, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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I will audit all references next week and share my findings as a standalone post.

Paper: ideas.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/u...

First 2 screenshots are from the book, the rest are from the paper, they continue in the next post but you'll get the idea without having to read them all:
An excerpt from the book "The Chaos Machine" by Max Fisher, the excerpt makes the case that intergroup contact theory only holds true under narrow circumstances, the full text of the excerpt reads: "Silicon Valley hubris, it appeared, had not just survived the election, it was thriving. If 2016 was the year that the Valley was forced to acknowledge it served as puppeteer of a vast network of invisible strings that pulled at us like two billion marionettes, then 2017 was when its brightest programmers decided the solution was not to cut the strings, but to take even firmer control of them. It was just a matter of making us all dance to the proper tune. They were acting on a widely held misinterpretation of something known as contact theory. Coined after World War II to explain why desegregated troops became less prone to racism, the theory suggested that social contact led distrustful groups to humanize one another. But subsequent research has shown that this process works only under narrow circumstances: managed exposure, equality of treatment, neutral territory, and a shared task. Simply mashing hostile tribes together, researchers repeatedly found, worsens animosity." The reference the "The Chaos Machine" book uses to substantiate it's claim that intergroup contact theory only holds true under narrow circumstances, the full text of the reference reads: "34 this process works only under: “A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup Contact Theory,” Thomas F. Pettigrew and Linda R. Tropp, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 90, no. 5, June 2006." An excerpt from the paper "A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup Contact Theory" that contradicts the claim made by the book "The Chaos Machine" that contact theory only holds true under certain narrow circumstances; the full excerpt reads: "This result suggests that contact theory, devised originally for racial and ethnic encounters, can be extended to other groups. A global indicator of Allport’s optimal contact conditions demonstrates that contact under these conditions typically leads to even greater reduction in prejudice. Closer examination demonstrates that these conditions are best conceptualized as an interrelated bundle rather than as independent factors. Further, the meta-analytic findings indicate that these conditions are not essential for prejudice reduction. Hence, future work should focus on negative factors that prevent intergroup contact from diminishing prejudice as well as the development of a more comprehensive theory of intergroup contact." An excerpt from the paper "A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup Contact Theory" that contradicts the claim made by the book "The Chaos Machine" that contact theory only holds true under certain narrow circumstances; the full excerpt reads: "Nonetheless, the structured program indicator of Allport’s condi tions remains a significant predictor of contact–prejudice effects ( .099, p .03) even when entered with these methodological mod erators. As such, this multivariate model provides a stronger test for Allport’s theory of intergroup contact than do the univariate compar isons for structured programs. Still, mean comparisons reported in Table 5 indicate that the inverse relationship between contact and prejudice persists—though not as strongly—even when the contact situation is not structured to match Allport’s conditions.".
November 30, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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I really appreciate whenever mathematicians take the opportunity to be funny in what would otherwise be the driest piece of #math literature I'll read the whole day.
A screenshot of text that reads: "Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica is famous for taking a thousand pages to prove that 1+1=2. Of course, it proves a lot of other stuff, too. If they had wanted to prove only that 1+1=2, it would probably have taken only half as much space."
November 28, 2024 at 8:39 AM
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Wow, Bluesky really is the new Twitter (derogatory)!

...This was literally just seconds after I liked my first post (an economics data chart)
A Bluesky notification showing a new follow from "@monica-de" Clicking on the profile of the recent follow reveals that "@monica-de" is a spam bot
November 28, 2024 at 7:06 AM