Thursday, December 19, 2019

Immune to influence

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/uok-iti121719.php

News Release 18-Dec-2019
University of Konstanz

A study published in the journal Vaccine provides the first rigorous look at how our attitudes towards vaccines (here: the flu vaccine) are shaped by online forces.

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Facts:

University of Konstanz researchers publish experimental study scrutinizing how vaccination arguments propagate in chains of people.

Study finds no evidence of "echo chambers": attitudes to flu vaccines did not become more extreme in groups of people who shared the same opinion.

Instead, people communicate only information that conforms to their prior attitudes.

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