The Cognitive Transactions, the Exchange of Arguments

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A group of computer scientists ran experiments on line, using text base chats to replicate text messaging. They recruited people on line and then had them use an ap like platform called dialogue den. In half of the groups that got the right answer, no one had the right answer before the group discus. If you find this as fascinating as i do, there's a link in the show notes over youare not so smart dot com, if you would like to see the actual transcripts of their deliberation.

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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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