MIT Researchers Shocked to Find Anti-Mask Proponents Seek Data, Do Their Own Homework, and See Science As a Process
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong Researchers from MIT monitored social media and infiltrated Facebook groups to assess how people think about and process information related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently they published their findings. This research involved assessing visualizations or graphs and other images people used to communicate information. It also involved network analysis, which is a way to analyze groups of people who hold a particular point of view and share or amplify each other’s messages. The team at MIT also qualitatively evaluated posts on Facebook for content and thought processes...
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