Phil Higham

@Sander_vdLinden @danwilliamsphil @ArianaMGalian That was an accident, actually (I spend very little time on Twitter - 11 tweets in 13 years - and was testing the buttons!), but you’re right - it is a good one - as was Dan’s critique ;-)

Is misinformation a dangerous virus? Are we living through an infodemic? Is there a vaccine for misinformation? In this review of Sander van der Linden's (@Sander_vdLinden) new book 'Foolproof', I argue that the answer to these questions is "no". A thread: bostonreview.net/articles/the-f…

One of the first papers in the area to use ROC analysis. Congrats Ariana!

@Sander_vdLinden @DG_Rand @ArianaMGalian Is this about true/fake or manipulative yes/no? If true/fake, participants are given a scale like 1 (not at all reliable) to 7 (very reliable): Bad News (2019). Rating a true (credible) item as 1, or a fake item as 7, is referring to your items as fake and true, respectively, no?

🚨Major paper by @ArianaMGalian & Higham in press at JEP:G 🚨 Widely adopted "Bad News" and "Go Viral" games don't actually make people better at spotting misinformation - they just reduce belief in everything😬 PDF: psyarxiv.com/4bgkd/ 1/

@Sander_vdLinden @DG_Rand @ArianaMGalian Don’t meta-analyses provide a better alternative to cherry picking of this sort? I could likely find evidence that Bad News decreases discernment if I search hard enough for the right study, but it wouldn’t mean much. It’s the overall results that are important, as Ariana states.

@ArianaMGalian @Sander_vdLinden @DG_Rand Exactly. There is no logical distinction between classifying the items as “true” versus “fake”, “credible” versus “misleading”, or manipulative techniques being “absent” versus “present”, respectively. All three are redundant distinctions in these studies.

@Sander_vdLinden @DG_Rand You can interpret the items as credible vs misleading. That wouldn't change the results of our ROC analysis.

@ProcterGamble 📣 “touching lives, improving life”? More like destroying lives, and also #rainforests while we’re at it. Stop sourcing #conflictpalmoil now!

@BorisJohnson, I’m outraged that your government would betray animals and the public by dropping the much-anticipated #AnimalsAbroadBill. Fur and foie gras imports must be banned NOW. #QueensSpeech petauk.org/1kg

@KookyChook Herro! So I guess the way we're using this now is no different from text messaging? Is that right? (New to Twitter.)