Homogeneity Of Opinions Research Articles

Analyzing temporal patterns of topic diversity using graph clustering

During a disaster, social media can be both a source of help and of danger: Social media has a potential to diffuse rumors, and officials involved in disaster mitigation must react quickly to the spread of rumor on social media. In this paper, we investigate how topic diversity (i.e., homogeneity of opinions in a topic) depends on the truthfulness of a topic (whether it is a rumor or a non-rumor) and how the topic diversity changes in time after a disaster. To do so, we develop a method for quantifying the topic diversity of the tweet data based on text content. The proposed method is based on clustering a tweet graph using Data polishing that automatically determines the number of subtopics. We perform a case study of tweets posted after the East Japan Great Earthquake on March 11, 2011. We find that rumor topics exhibit more homogeneity of opinions in a topic during diffusion than non-rumor topics. Furthermore, we evaluate the performance of our method and demonstrate its improvement on the runtime for data processing over existing methods.

Inclusive-Exclusive Justice: Homogeneity Assumption Removed

In this paper I question the uniformity assumptions central to the contractarian interpretations of justice. As examples, homogeneity assumptions in Kant, Rawls, and Binmore’s views on justice are examined and the applicability of their postulations is questioned. It is shown that contractarian principles of justice are only plausible in small groups of highly correlated and similarly minded members. Bargaining models for the original position are studied which again need to assume homogeneity of opinion to be conclusive. In contrast, it is possible to replace the top-down contractarian methodology with a bottom-up game theoretical approach. The adoption of evolutionarily stable strategies and the transition from evolutionarily stable strategies to conventions are detailed. I study the connection of altruism and spite through the insider-outsider duality. It is shown that this duality is a necessary component in the analysis of justice in heterogenous societies. Considering the effects of inclusion-exclusion on contractarian doctrines, the possibility of a global theory of justice based on evolutionary methods is proposed.

A Chiropracticness Test

BackgroundThere is little homogeneity of opinion in the chiropractic profession about its essence and identity. Matters compromising the establishment of a coherent identity include the issue of vertebral subluxation, philosophy, mercantilism, poverty of qualifications in some chiropractic college faculty, and lack of intellectual productivity in some chiropractic college faculty.DiscussionThe Chiropractic profession has mislabeled rhetoric, supposition and cant as philosophy, whilst showing sparse evidence for the existence of more than a few chiropractors writing in philosophy as a discipline. There is no evidence for "Chiropractic Philosophy".I propose, however, that a better use of the discipline of philosophy can be of great use to the Chiropractic profession. Various thinkers throughout the ages have written about deduction, induction and falsificationism as methods to discover more reliably the nature of things in the world about us. Each method has strengths and frailties, but some of the latter are insurmountable for our purposes.SummaryUsing a contrivance of that method which seems most suited, sui generis, for the purpose, I propose a Chiropracticness Test as a tool to assist the search for essence and identity in Chiropractic.

Society and transition in post-Soviet Russia

Applying traditional notions of the concept `political cleavage' to Russian society is premature. Judicious analysis of public opinion data demonstrates that, despite any statistically significant differences of opinion that may exist, major Russian social groups have substantively similar attitudes toward economic reform. As economic issues are likely to dominate political life in Russia for the foreseeable future, the homogeneity of opinion on those issues minimizes the potential for socially based political cleavages. This social environment weakens the rationale for adherence to democratic institutions, which are essentially a means for peaceful mediation of societal conflicts.

The Structure of Opinion: A "Loyalty Oath" Poll

This study of student reactions to the loyalty oath issue at the University of California suggests two major conclusions about the content and organization of individual opinions. First, in a population which is informed about and identified with a specific controversial issue, there appear to be significant relationships between opinions on the focal questions and expectancies as to the consequences of alternative solutions of the issue. Second, opinions do not exist independently of other opinions, nor do they exist independently of the security with which they are held. Relatively great security seems to be associated with homogeneity of opinion. Daniel Wilner is a graduate student in Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Franklin Fearing is Professor of Psychology at the same university and one of the editors of Hollywood Quarterly.

Homogeneity of Opinion Among Liberal Leaders

Homogeneity of Opinion Among Liberal Leaders