Perhaps a Guy Named Dave
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Give it a bit, they will start spreading lies about him spreading STDs with his deposition as evidence.
T. Greg Doucette / Thomas Gregory Doucette / greg_doucette / TGDLaw / fsckemall / lawdevnull / TDot - Super Lawyer, Failed Politician, Captain of The Threadnought, Drowning in Debt
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Well there was this recent small study that said Twitter makes you dumber, so we got that
Twitter is eroding your intelligence. Now there’s data to prove it.
A new study questions use of Twitter as a tool to enhance learning. (Richard Drew/AP)
By Isaac Stanley-Becker
May 30
Twitter, used by 126 million people daily and now ubiquitous in some industries, has vowed to reform itself after being enlisted as a tool of misinformation and hate.
But new evidence shows that the platform may be inflicting harm at an even more basic level. It could be making its users, well, a bit witless.
The finding by a team of Italian researchers is not necessarily that the crush of hashtags, likes and retweets destroys brain cells; that’s a question for neuroscientists, they said.
Rather, the economists, in a working paper published this month by the economics and finance department at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, found that Twitter not only fails to enhance intellectual attainment but substantially undermines it.
“It’s quite detrimental,” Gian Paolo Barbetta, a professor of economic policy at the private research university and the paper’s lead author, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I can’t say whether something is changing in the mind, but I can say that something is definitely changing in the behavior and the performance.”
To the best of Barbetta’s knowledge, his study is the largest and most rigorous examination of Twitter’s effect on student achievement, with applications to learning and information retention in other areas of life.
The investigation drew on a sample of roughly 1,500 students attending 70 Italian high schools during the 2016-2017 academic year. Half of the students used Twitter to analyze “The Late Mattia Pascal,” the 1904 novel by Italian Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello, which satirizes issues of self-knowledge and self-destruction. They posted quotes and their own reflections, commenting on tweets written by their classmates. Teachers weighed in to stimulate the online discussion.
The other half relied on traditional classroom teaching methods. Performance was assessed based on a test measuring understanding, comprehension and memorization of the book.
Using Twitter reduced performance on the test by about 25 to 40 percent of a standard deviation from the average result, as the paper explains. Jeff Hancock, the founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab, described these as “pretty big effects.”
Notably, the decline was sharpest among higher-achieving students, including women, those born in Italy and those who had scored higher on a baseline test. This finding, the paper notes, bolsters the conclusion that blogs and social networking sites actively impair performance, rather than simply failing to augment learning.
A spokeswoman for Twitter declined to comment on the study. The company does not purport to make its users smarter. But its mission statement sets forth goals not so different from those of a literature course — “to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers.” And in describing the platform as a “digital public square,” Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, appeared to embrace civic and social aspirations, saying last year that the standard to which the company should be held is “building a systemic framework to help encourage more healthy debate, conversations, and critical thinking.”
Barbetta said more results were necessary to draw definitive conclusions about the “possible negative effects” of Twitter on learning. “As results accumulate, we definitely should be more wary about how we use social platforms,” he said.
The study focused narrowly on high school literature students. But that approach gave the researchers access to a large sample, as several hundred Italian schools had already adopted a framework for Twitter-based conversations about literary masterpieces, called “TwLetteratura.” The method also allowed them to avoid problems plaguing past studies, some of which allowed participants to opt in to social networking, skewing the data toward those with an aptitude or particular interest in online engagement.
The relevance of literature and reading comprehension to evaluations of digital communication was underscored on Wednesday, when special counsel Robert S. Mueller III seemed to enjoin the nation to heed the warnings in his 448-page report — in other words, to do the reading instead of consuming sound bites on social media.
[As he exits, Mueller suggests only Congress can ‘formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing’]
Karen North, a professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, said the study had stark implications for politics, adding that its findings were hardly surprising.
“It’s the same problem that we have with the level of political discussion,” said North, who previously worked on science and technology policy in Washington, both in the White House and on Capitol Hill. “People get 280 characters, and it’s not enough. Without the full background, you’re more likely to be led astray.”
Recent analysis has suggested that broad swaths of the electorate are not as engaged online as is an especially vocal cohort of digital aficionados. Still, Twitter, which is President Trump’s preferred medium of communication, has cemented its place in the political ecosystem, and its role is only likely to expand in advance of the 2020 election. Twitter is where candidates go to issue announcements and respond instantly to news developments. It’s also where pundits react in real time.
But the platform doesn’t lend itself to explanation or in-depth analysis, North said. “Remember when we were debating whether people have the attention span to consume 280 characters, instead of just 140?” she recalled.
Although social media shouldn’t be dismissed as a learning tool, more thought is required to determine the strengths of different technologies and their proper audience, she said. Above all, the communications professor emphasized, platforms like Twitter should not replace more traditional methods of engagement, especially in grappling with complex topics — whether that means a presidential election or the plot of “The Late Mattia Pascal.”
The problem, said Barbetta, is that people will take a shortcut if it’s given to them.
“But a shortcut won’t take you to the destination in this case,” he added. “It will take you somewhere different.”
As the study indicates, Twitter is the ultimate shortcut. Barbetta suggested that declining performance among students who had used the social networking site to study the novel was a result of two factors. The first was a mistaken belief on the part of students that they had absorbed the book by circulating tweets about its contents. The second was that time spent on social media simply replaced time spent actually poring over the book.
The study contributes to growing skepticism that human activities — and learning, specifically — can be transferred to cyberspace without a cost. For instance, analysis has found that screen-based reading lends itself to skimming. In a 2016 study, it was discovered that test scores were lower among American undergraduates assigned to classrooms where computers were allowed than among those required to resort to pen and paper.
In the case of Twitter and Italian literature, the initial assumption of the study turned out to be faulty. “We thought we were testing a positive intervention,” Barbetta said.
Among some researchers, the urgent question is now whether social media — once embraced uncritically — is a net positive, indeed whether it is capable of accurately reflecting reality.
It’s a problem once captured by Luigi Pirandello, the author of the literary text used in the Italian study.
"There is someone who is living my life,'' the Nobel laureate wrote in a diary entry in 1934. “And I know nothing about him.”
Autism Powers
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So you saying she is bottom FEEDER? Please don't invoke Null in this tred
I just like seeing them squirm. They so butthurt that reality can't bend to their wishes, so not even 3 layers and wast majority of internet can convince them. I seriously believe after all this is done some of them will end up in looney asalym
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Can we just take a minute to appreciate how disingenuous Doucette has been the past couple of days?
Before anyone could actually get Lemonade's motion, he had a copy by himself and handpicked portions of it for the explicit purpose of adding more smokescreen to his Threadnaught, misrepresenting a portion of it to make it like Vic was misleading anyone about the GFM, then handpicking sections of the deposition proper and gloating in similar fashion, and then going "oh boy looks like Lemoine is going to win this motion, I'm 100% certain!" despite only having le 57% of the deposition to go off of.
Did he talk about Toye's deposition at all despite apparently having insider access to these documents before they're fully released to the public? And when he talked about it, the best he could say was "oh well Toye's performance was bad but it doesn't even matter because Vic's was so much worse".
He doesn't even talk about the answers to the actual accusations at hand-- whether or not Vic sexually harassed or assaulted anyone. He's fishing and coming up with tree logs and he still wants to act like this was nOt a gOOD lOOk fOR vIC.
Meanwhile, Rackets has been analyzing every single document and motion and information he can get his hands on concerning his lawsuit, and nobody-- especially not Doucette-- has ever bothered to answer to anything beyond the broad stroke arguments to be derived from his (Rackets') arguments in summary.
Nick is biased. He's aware he's biased. He's more vitriolic about this than Vic is, and he's said so, and we all know it, and still, he's showing everything he can, from both sides. With how willing he is to reconsider or give credit where he's due, you can tell he's being genuine and speaking from experience, compared to a guy who's commandeering an irrevocably unnavigable Twitter thread whose only purpose is to create a hugbox for #kickvic.
Before anyone could actually get Lemonade's motion, he had a copy by himself and handpicked portions of it for the explicit purpose of adding more smokescreen to his Threadnaught, misrepresenting a portion of it to make it like Vic was misleading anyone about the GFM, then handpicking sections of the deposition proper and gloating in similar fashion, and then going "oh boy looks like Lemoine is going to win this motion, I'm 100% certain!" despite only having le 57% of the deposition to go off of.
Did he talk about Toye's deposition at all despite apparently having insider access to these documents before they're fully released to the public? And when he talked about it, the best he could say was "oh well Toye's performance was bad but it doesn't even matter because Vic's was so much worse".
He doesn't even talk about the answers to the actual accusations at hand-- whether or not Vic sexually harassed or assaulted anyone. He's fishing and coming up with tree logs and he still wants to act like this was nOt a gOOD lOOk fOR vIC.
Meanwhile, Rackets has been analyzing every single document and motion and information he can get his hands on concerning his lawsuit, and nobody-- especially not Doucette-- has ever bothered to answer to anything beyond the broad stroke arguments to be derived from his (Rackets') arguments in summary.
Nick is biased. He's aware he's biased. He's more vitriolic about this than Vic is, and he's said so, and we all know it, and still, he's showing everything he can, from both sides. With how willing he is to reconsider or give credit where he's due, you can tell he's being genuine and speaking from experience, compared to a guy who's commandeering an irrevocably unnavigable Twitter thread whose only purpose is to create a hugbox for #kickvic.
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Hell if I remember correctly, he even said that Monicas deposition, from what he heard, was alright. Not Super awesome or anything, but definitely did fine compared to toye. My point is he does give credit when credit is due, even though he admits his bias.
ThonyTheThaigirl
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The defense is well aware of how hard this battle is fought online, and how important that sector is. Taking hold of any semblance of a legal "leader" that can help them fight that battle has always been important. Doucette is their guy, especially because he seems to be somewhat on the same page about the GFM.
There's a massive difference between how the two parties have fought this battle, though. Nick is doing it of his own volition, against the will of the plaintiff, and sometimes in disagreement with the plaintiff's counsel. Doucette is doing it after being pestered and requested to come into the battle, with the seeming consent and blessing of the defendants in the form of twitter likes, and seemingly ALWAYS in agreement with the defendants' counsel. He's a propagandizing sycophant, plain and simple, and Nick very clearly is not, to anybody that watches the show and pays attention with open ears and an open mind.
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On the redaction percentage count:
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Apart from the question of how to arbitrate this disagreement of count, he's not even bringing into consideration the total number of pages of the deposition or what he's counting as the deposition.
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Apart from the question of how to arbitrate this disagreement of count, he's not even bringing into consideration the total number of pages of the deposition or what he's counting as the deposition.
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This guy doesn't even know how to calculate percentage.On the redaction percentage count:
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Apart from the question of how to arbitrate this disagreement of count, he's not even bringing into consideration the total number of pages of the deposition or what he's counting as the deposition.
Also, if he's off by 2.2x on the redaction count, that would mean that there's even more redacted material than we think there is.
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Of all the absolutely irrelevant shit nobody cares at all about, this autist is focusing on that?
Cakeisjustok
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Yeah the disagreement on if to count full pages or depo pages has to be a lowpoint in all of this
Jack Atlas
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Cuck Light Year going after Null on twitter, this gonna be good
EDIT: Well, i see it happened hours ago, i accept all cougar attacks
EDIT: Well, i see it happened hours ago, i accept all cougar attacks
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I really do wonder if these super lolyers actually think before they type,
At this rate, I believe we may need a community watch thread just for "Sea-men of the Threadnought"
At this rate, I believe we may need a community watch thread just for "Sea-men of the Threadnought"
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I really do wonder if these super lolyers actually think before they type,
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At this rate, I believe we may need a community watch thread just for "Sea-men of the Threadnought"
You're asking us this while showing to us someone who has unironically called themselves "Sailor on the Threadnaught".
Seriously, "Threadnaught" is just about the worst thing that has come out of this sphere of the internet since discount bootleg Mean Girls trying to reclaim the word "thot".
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Can't something be a total affront to humanity, and be angelically beautiful at the same time?
CBBD
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Its pretty common in NC to be unaff so you can vote against democrats in the primary and help push their worst candidate to edge out the general election's purple state nature. Atleast, in my time spent there a lot of the repubs i knew did as much.
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That kind of masturbatory ouroboros of nonsense is exactly why Twitter is cancer. You could spend hours reading that and end literally knowing less than when you started because of the sheer volume of unchecked nonsense and ridiculous confirmation bias feedback loops of these people jerking each other off.
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And literally any contrary facts brought in, cause them to start screeching and crying about how their hugbox was infiltrated
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I didn't think the internet could create a less informative circlejerk than reddit threads but twitter went and showed me.
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