The way to task is that there's a right answer and it can be conveyed between individuals. The group discussion, small group discussion, converts majority individual failure to majority group success. We recruited people to discuss the task in text. They're doing it in a chat room. And that allows us to record their individual answers before they go into the discussion,. Record every utterance they make in the conversation. Then record their answers at the end of the discussion when they come out and see how their perception of the right answers is changed by the discussion.
Deliberation. Debate. Conversation. Though it can feel like that’s what we are doing online as we trade arguments back and forth, most of the places where we currently gather make it much easier to produce arguments in isolation rather than evaluate them together in groups. The latest research suggests we will need much more of the latter if we hope to create a new, modern, functioning marketplace of ideas. In this episode, psychologist Tom Stafford takes us through his research into how to do just that.
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