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2 responses to “The Mmm-yes tendency in newspaper commentators”

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   Ewan McIntosh

   January 8, 2007 at 7:47 am

   It’s the old “collective intelligence” versus “collective dumbness” thing that Kathy Sierra was saying the other day. I blogged about how it affects education:
   http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2007/01/collective_dumb.html

   Although we know there is no one right answer to a problem we all end up dumbing down our views to suit the majority when, in fact, what we need is some more disruption.

   Francois Bayrou (the first French politician up at LeWeb3) was on the French telly last night saying:
   “Si on n’a plus d’opinions différentes, on ne refléchis plus.” (If we don’t have different opinions we just stop thinking altogether.)

   He might just be right.

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   Jackie Danicki

   January 12, 2007 at 12:14 pm

   It’s never a good idea to write for the commenters. Doing so is a bit like making your life choices based on what other people will think or say – an isolating and extremely limiting way to live or blog.