In a new @wonkhe.bsky.social piece, RoRI fellows Anna Butters and @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy explore distributed peer review - and what it can (and can’t) fix: wonkhe.com/blogs/a-new-...

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

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) […]

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

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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