Mind the (Perception) Gap — with Dan Vallone

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

What do you think the other side thinks? Guest Dan Vallone is the Director of More in Common U.S.A., an organization that’s been asking Democrats and Republicans that critical question. Their work has uncovered countless “perception gaps” in our understanding of each other. For example, Democrats think that about 30 percent of Republicans support "reasonable gun control," but in reality, it’s about 70 percent. Both Republicans and Democrats think that about 50 percent of the other side would feel that physical violence is justified in some situations, but the actual number for each is only about five percent. “Both sides are convinced that the majority of their political opponents are extremists,” says Dan. “And yet, that's just not true.” Social media encourages the most extreme views to speak the loudest and rise to the top—and it’s hard to start a conversation and work together when we’re all arguing with mirages. But Dan’s insights and the work of More in Common provide a hopeful guide to unraveling the distortions we’ve come to accept and correcting our foggy vision.

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0:00.0	Today, our guest is Dan Vellone, who's the national director of Morin Common, a non-profit
0:06.0	organization that's been asking Democrats and Republicans an invaluable question.
0:10.6	What do you think the other side thinks?
0:13.5	Democrats think that basically that one in three Republicans support reasonable gun control
0:17.7	is closer to 65-70%.
0:19.9	Dan has a lot of data like this.
0:22.2	Democrats thought that less than 50% of Republicans still consider racism a problem is closer
0:27.1	to 75-80%.
0:28.8	In technology, we often focus on misinformation, or on disinformation, or on shared truth.
0:34.5	But we don't even talk about our second-order beliefs.
0:37.6	Not our beliefs about what's true, but our beliefs about what other people think is true.
0:42.5	Do we have an accurate understanding of each other?
0:46.4	Less than 5% on either side felt that physical violence would be justified.
0:51.3	Yet, each side felt about 50% of the other side would justify violence.
0:56.8	Throughout Dan's research, he finds that we overestimate just how many people hold the
1:01.8	most extreme views.
1:03.2	Because we're hit with a double whammy.
1:04.8	The people with extreme views both participate more in social media, posting more, liking
1:09.8	more, retweeting more.
1:11.5	But they also, when they participate, they get more airtime, they get more reach, they
1:15.0	get more surface area of the attention economy.
1:17.9	And who's the sucker now?
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