Scientists Calculate Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas

[jdwii]

what the hell is this about makes no sense

 

[sseyler]

[citation][nom]f-14[/nom]computer models are only as good as the people that designed them, and nobody is perfect therefore they are all seriously flawed and doomed to die.example how often is the weather forecast right? they are all computer models.the guys making the weather forecasts as also the ones feeding the global warming b.s.guess they missed the point in there being dinosaur fossils and other fossils of tropical species in the deep tundra.what happens to end an ice age = it starts warming up until the poles are tropical. what happens to start an ice age?= it starts cooling down from the tropical climate at the poles.how many ice ages have there been? = 3 that we know of.idiots can't predict the weather despite the fact they have previous models for the last billion years of the same 4 cycles winter spring summer fall.oh that's right they think they have things all figured out based on just 60 years of information from the fallible electronic age.oh wait maybe they are studying this study idea they threw out right now on all us guinea pigs to see if it fly's despite it's oink oink.[/citation]

You realize that despite how much you think you know about what you're talking about, you're really the one spreading bullsh*t?

 

[WyomingKnott]

[citation][nom]kyee7k[/nom]Who gave them the money for this study?[/citation]
Ten percent of the National Science Foundation?

 

[dalauder]

There's some major problems with this study:

1) It assumes that individuals are "open minded to other views." Tell that to people who insist that animals cannot evolve or that Global Warming is a fabrication of pot-smoking tree huggers (f-14).

2) "True believers" have the ability to convert the general populace. People can believe something as strongly as they want. But if it is idiotic, for example, Pastafarianism, I will never believe it.

This study ignores reasons for ideas spreading. A lot of major ideologies spread because they have something that appeals to the populace such as promising impoverished people of a happy afterlife, blaming jews because you don't want to blame yourself, or various American wars based on fear. Not all ideas that spread like wildfire are inherently bad, but expecting something to spread because of "true believers" is a flawed concept. The population has to be desperate to accept anything other than the most moderate ideas.

The "tipping point" concept would be more appropriately applied to the adoption of new systems such as assembly lines, cell phones, fiber optics, or digital cameras.