{"id":30755,"date":"2023-11-27T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T16:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=30755"},"modified":"2023-11-27T11:52:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T16:52:57","slug":"people-are-not-points-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=30755","title":{"rendered":"people are not points in space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the video of a lecture that I gave at the Institute H21 symposium in Prague last September. The symposium was entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ih21.org\/en\/symposium\">Democracy in the 21st Century: Challenges for an Open Society<\/a>, and my talk was: &#8220;People Are Not Points in Space: Opinions and Discussions as Networks of Ideas.&#8221; I&#8217;m grateful for the opportunity to present and for the ideas of other participants and organizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/07kl8cxOzj4?si=BF_Gpq9Mi5o-2Njk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>My main point was that academic research currently disparages the reasoning potential of ordinary people, and this skepticism discourages efforts to protect and enhance democratic institutions. I think the low estimate of people&#8217;s capacity is a bias that is reinforced by prevalent statistical methods, and I endorse an alternative methodology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See also: &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=25369\">individuals in cultures: the concept of an idiodictuon<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=29214\">Analyzing Political Opinions and Discussions as Networks of Ideas<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=30274\">a method for analyzing organizations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the video of a lecture that I gave at the Institute H21 symposium in Prague last September. The symposium was entitled Democracy in the 21st Century: Challenges for an Open Society, and my talk was: &#8220;People Are Not Points in Space: Opinions and Discussions as Networks of Ideas.&#8221; I&#8217;m grateful for the opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,29,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-and-video","category-moral-network-mapping","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30755"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30763,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30755\/revisions\/30763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}