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> If users change their opinions easily, they will be attracted to the extreme ends of the polarity spectrum. This is an interesting result. In general, I thin
by brightstep 5y ago
> If users change their opinions easily, they will be attracted to the extreme ends of the polarity spectrum.
This is an interesting result. In general, I think most would agree it's a good thing to change your opinion based on new information. Yet if their model is correct, doing so leads one away from what the author implies is the ideal neutral position. So, is it a bad thing to change your mind, or do thinking people naturally gravitate away from "ideal" neutrality?
- js8 5y agoWhat does it mean to be neutral when you have to make a decision? Take capital punishment, for instance. How can you be neutral about it? You say, well, we are only gonna execute some of them? You can be in favor of status quo (doing nothing), but it is not neutrality.
- mikk14 5y agoWhat is interesting is that, if we turn this opinion change to the max, there are mathematical models showing that people should converge to the average (i.e. moderate) opinion of the system. However our model, via the four parameters we can play with, allows for a narrow range of their values to avoid this consensus reaching. And it is in this narrow range that we can fit best observational data from Twitter.