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This has turned communicators of all kinds – from fashion influencers to public health specialists – into Kremlinologists who obsessively analyze the behavior of social media algorithms in the hopes of learning how to please them and (more importantly) how to avoid their punishments.
Pluralistic: 11 Apr 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily Links From Cory Doctorow
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I learned that for Teasdale the solution came down to this: how people explain to themselves the bad things that happen to them. People who made certain kinds of explanations, he believed, are prey to helplessness. Teaching them to change these explanations might prove an effective way to treat their depression.
Learned Optimism
Martin E.P. Seligman
Cues There aren’t any obvious verbal or mental cues that signal resulting. It is not common to hear somebody say out loud, “That decision was terrible because I’m working backward from the awful outcome to determine that the decision was awful.” But there are obvious cues that signal hindsight bias, such as “I can’t believe I didn’t see that coming,” or “I knew it,” or “I told you so,” or “I should have known it.” Training yourself to listen for those mental and verbal cues is a good way to hone your hindsight bias spotting skills.
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