‘Tipping point’ makes partisan polarization irreversible in research model

Post by travisporter » Sat, Dec 11, 2021, 5:09 AM UTC

jfengel wrote: post #78

travisporter wrote: post #4

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Thank you open access! But did I find a typo? "Nevertheless, we make no claims about the model’s predictive accuracy. The model is highly abstract and remains to be empirically calibrated and tested. Nor can we assume that tipping points would obtain in radically different applications, such as affective polarization, voter polarization, or media polarization."

Do you mean in the word "affective"? It's a perfectly cromulent word. It's the adjectival form of the word "affect" in its noun sense, meaning "mood" or "feeling". This form is pronounced differently: A-fect (emphasis on the first syllable, with the vowel like in "rat"). "Affective polarization" is "people being polarized in how they feel about each other", i.e. animosity towards people in the other party. It's a tec…