207 - A Slight Change of Plans - Maya Shankar
You Are Not So Smart
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The Fastest Recorded Shift of Public Opinion
i wanted to understand, like scientifically, how could an entire country change its mind about something that they were arguing about at the same level as wedge issues are argued about to day? And i imagine taking someone in a time machine back ten years and having them meet themselves. U imaginethe two people arguing with one another themselves the same way they argued to day. I just wanted to understand how, how could it happen quickly? What is the nature of a very rapid social change? That was the entry point into it. But when i started interviewing people in political science first, they were like, ya, we know this is the fastest recording recorded shift of public opinion but it's not
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