Again, today of all days is an important time to recognize that the Democratic Party's 2026/2028 platform must be institutional reform. <Every policy> everyone wants <follows> from that, not the other way around. There will be <one> chance to fix things. We can't waste it again.
Mark Copelovitch
Editorship announcement:
We are saddened to announce that Giana M. Eckhardt has decided to step down as Co-Editor of the Journal of Consumer Research, for personal reasons. She has been an outstanding Co-Editor, and has worked tirelessly for the journal...
People’s spontaneous searches are narrow, intended to produce results in line with their prior beliefs—which tend to persist, but when presented with broader information, they tend to update their beliefs more, research by Leung & @olegurminsky.bsky.social suggests:
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
When platforms adjust algorithms to return broader search results, people update their beliefs more (under some conditions). This can be a good thing, to the degree that the incremental information provided by broadening is accurate.
An interesting theoretical aspect of this practical question: research in psychology has identified two potential dimensions of confirmation bias, bias in framing question and bias in which answers we pay attention to.
The paper, led by Eugina Leung, is here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We document that the human tendency for confirmation bias in question framing (the tendency of people to frame search in terms of their prior beliefs) and algorithms that optimize for relevance combine to impede belief updating.
Very excited that this @chicagoboothreview.bsky.social interview and our paper on the "Narrow Search Effect" are both out:
www.chicagobooth.edu/review/podca...
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A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
🇺🇸 trifectas get <one> shot at doing something
Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem
The platform must be <immediate> institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said
Prof @ UChicago Booth. Trying to learn how people think. Not a statistician but not exactly a psychologist either. You kids keep me young.
Find my stuff here: https://home.uchicago.edu/~ourminsky/
