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julian
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It was suggested in Smolin's book "The trouble with physics" that stringy people may have succumb to a group condition called groupthink - this is where social factors lead people to defective decision making processes.
More generally, no offense to string people as it might be just a mild case, it is characterized by a deterioration in intelligence, reality testing and moral judgement. In a paper "So right it’s wrong: Groupthink and the ubiquitous nature of polarized group decision-making." (http://ion.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark/teach/3480/Groupthink-Baron.pdf ) it is argued that groupthink happens in more mundane ordinary groups. I think I may have come across such a group and was wondering if anybody knew of a sociology department that might be interested in studying an online group that I can only describe as stark raving bonkers :)
More generally, no offense to string people as it might be just a mild case, it is characterized by a deterioration in intelligence, reality testing and moral judgement. In a paper "So right it’s wrong: Groupthink and the ubiquitous nature of polarized group decision-making." (http://ion.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark/teach/3480/Groupthink-Baron.pdf ) it is argued that groupthink happens in more mundane ordinary groups. I think I may have come across such a group and was wondering if anybody knew of a sociology department that might be interested in studying an online group that I can only describe as stark raving bonkers :)
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