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Indeed they are; Vox has improved the Q factor of the left wing echo chamber like nothing since the rise of huffpo.
by cnnsucks 10y ago
Indeed they are; Vox has improved the Q factor of the left wing echo chamber like nothing since the rise of huffpo.
- richk449 10y agoWell put. Has the idea of a quality factor (Q) for a political "echo-chamber" been defined? Seems like an opportunity to inject some rigor into some commonly used terms. One could measure the decay time of conspiracy theories through number of articles/posts published to determine the Q. Or one could try to determine the bandwidth, as the allowed deviation from orthodoxy - a high Q chamber would have everyone parroting the exact same thing, whereas a low Q chamber would admit significant variability. Seems harder to quantify this measure though. Also no reason to assume those two measures would be consistent. Needs a more rigorous approach to ensure self-consistency.