调整covid - 19的起草人:重新设计我们社会对错误信息的理解

A. Agarwal
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covid - 19大流行揭示了我们社会的认知存在于一个低天花板、可居住的房间里,几乎没有或几乎没有对真相的照亮。如此低的上限不仅限制了我们认知的自由,也抑制了认知的健康成长。随后,我们的社会感到一种推动感,这种感觉往往被错误信息、虚假信息和假新闻的黑暗时期所夸大。因此,有必要重新思考我们认知的内部设计——我们如何从不同的角度看待这些错误信息的时期?我们可以利用它们来让我们的空间看起来足够宽敞,以满足我们认知的增长吗?尽管我们现有的认知偏见对天花板长度施加了限制,但作为研究人员,我们可以利用认识论、现象学、进化心理学以及数学等领域的多种非传统跨学科方法来扩大我们对现有的“错误信息”的理解,这些“错误信息”是covid - 19对我们社会认知的连锁反应。本文的目的应该是相同的——提出一个关于“错误信息的黑暗时期”的高尚话语——为什么错误信息不是一种流行病,而是一种广泛使用的误称,真实信息的来源如何成为错误信息的来源,为什么错误信息是我们社会发展更好的认知启发式框架所需要的,最后,为什么这种非常规的方法未能看到研究的曙光。虽然现有的处理错误信息的方法围绕着机器学习模型相互竞争以提高检测精度,但本文将使用各种途径将读者直接带到“错误信息”的中心。在最后,作者提供了上述方法如何不仅扩大了我们对普遍存在的错误信息现象的理解,而且还可以利用和扩展非理性的人类行为,如自杀,党派偏见,甚至美国的学生枪支暴力。关键词:错误信息;心理学;跨学科研究;社会;进化
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Adjusting the Drafter for COVID19: Re-designing our society’s understanding of misinformation
The pandemic of COVID19 illuminated the presence of our society’s cognition in a low-ceiling, inhabitable room, with almost little to no illumination of truth. Such a low-ceiling doesn’t only restrict the freedom of our cognition but also inhibits its healthy growth. Subsequently, our society feels a pushing sense, which is often exaggerated by the dark periods of misinformation, disinformation, and fake news. Hence, it becomes essential to rethink the interior designs of our cognition – How can we look at these periods of misinformation from a different lens? Can we use them to our advantage to make our room looks spacious enough for the growth of our cognition? Despite the limitations imposed to theceiling length by our existing cognitive biases, there exist multiple, unconventional interdisciplinary approaches from the fields of epistemology, phenomenology, evolutionary psychology, and finally, the mathematics that we, as researchers, can leverage to broaden our understanding of the existing “misinfodemic” that presents as a ripple effect of COVID19 on our society’s cognition. The aim of this paper shall be the same – to present a noble discourse regarding the “dark period of misinformation” – why misinformation is NOT a pandemic but a widely-used misnomer, how the source of truthful information acts as a source of misinformation, why misinformation is needed for the development of a better cognitive heuristic framework for our society, and finally, why such unconventional approaches fail to see the light of research. While the existing approaches to deal with misinformation spiral around machine-learning models competing with each other for better detection accuracy, this paper will take the reader right to the epicenter of “misinfodemic” using a variety of routes. Towards the end, the author provides how the mentioned approaches not only widen our understanding regarding the universal phenomenon of misinformation but also can be leveraged and scaled for irrational human behaviors like suicide, partisanship, and even student gun violence in the USA.Keywords: misinformation; psychology; interdisciplinary research; society; evolution
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