I — Background Discord is a popular online chat platform, that started as a tool for video game players to communicate. It acted as a replacement for other preexisting tools like Teamspeak. However, in a relatively short time the combination of powerful moderation tools, easy startup time, and simplicity of...
I. The fundamental attribution error is a well known psychological phenomenon wherein people are likely to ascribe external motivations to their own failure and external motivations for the failures of others. This has a variety of factors, and is a well studied concept, however I intend to focus on one...
I — Background
Discord is a popular online chat platform, that started as a tool for video game players to communicate. It acted as a replacement for other preexisting tools like Teamspeak. However, in a relatively short time the combination of powerful moderation tools, easy startup time, and simplicity of use placed it as a popular tool for providing a live environment for many kinds of communities. As of 2017 the platform was receiving roughly 1.5 million new users each week. The in depth analysis of why Discord has seen such success as a home for online communities is an interesting one, but also outside the scope of this essay. Here we are specifically interested... (read 1401 more words →)
Thank you, this is my first real piece of for fun analytical writing. I pulled this from my Medium, so looks like I need to check for errors more carefully next time.
I think I mostly agree, except to say that I think something can be both a social strategy and a cognitive error. The question is whether that social strategy actually leads to the outcome we want, if not then I think it's fair to call it a cognitive error. Arguable all cognitive errors are social (or just general) strategies under certain conditions.
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The fundamental attribution error is a well known psychological phenomenon wherein people are likely to ascribe external motivations to their own failure and external motivations for the failures of others. This has a variety of factors, and is a well studied concept, however I intend to focus on one aspect of this common problem. One explanation for the FAE is that it results from the simple truth that we know our own situations better than those of others, and fail to take into account the uncertainty in predicting the internal state of another person. This attempt to distill certainty out of uncertain information is a major flaw in many kinds of... (read 908 more words →)