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"truly enthusiastic trust nerd" (Möllering, 2023, p. 96)—assoc prof @ Mich State University—EIC @ Journal of Trust Research
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My go-to networks person is Bill McEvily at U Toronto but this looks a little different from what I understand of that work. Cool stuff!
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Hope you enjoy it!!
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I have some quibbles with the idea that authorities can estimate public trust and some pieces of the experiment but I buy finding a correlation between government support for harm reduction and trust in government. Not sure if it would survive explicit conservative pushback though.
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Tyler told me to attend to treatment over outcome. Mayer introduced me vulnerability while Holling showed me balance. Ostrom asked me to trust the people, and Baldwin reminded me why we can’t always do that.
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Thanks!
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I’ll be there!
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I was hoping more people would ask to be added :/
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Absolutely fair, but the paper draws attention to increases in trust in science on the left so my comment was aimed there.
(I neglected to include the title in my original post—very important context that I dropped…)
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It’s just my musing. They find the levels of trust diverge, in part, because liberal trust in science is increasing. It could be that science is more trustworthy, but I read it as a motivated response of reporting higher trust because it is under threat.
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Right there with you 😂😩
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No, something happened recently. Not sure if it’s a bug or their new normal though…
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💯
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There’s a few pressures. New editors can be nervous about desk rejecting but that is likely a small portion of cases. I’m also sure sometimes it’s about not having the brain space to catch important details and scanning too fast.
But I would bet it’s most often just an ask for another perspective.
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3- Set better norms.
So much of the less-than-ideal elements of higher-ed are seen and simply accepted.
Challenge what should be better. It may not change but it closes those feedback loops and highlights likely harm.
Note: grad students are GREAT at seeing those opportunities. Listen to them.
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2- Find and minimize harm that is still caused by our systems.
Closed feedbacks generally help people in “average” situations. People whose experiences diverge from that still risk injury.
Those injuries are not hard to find but you do have to look. When you find them, engage and elevate.
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1- Close feedback loops.
Most institutional policies (and practices) are set by people who can ignore them (tenured faculty) but felt by everyone else (staff, students, untenured faculty).
Look for ways to make sure those impacts feed back to decision-makers by holding space for diverse voices.
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Very interesting—thanks!
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This is interesting, Will, but at odds with going wisdom. Do you have a sense for why you find a closer connection in your data? I’m sure I could get that from the paper myself (I did skim it! :) but thought this might be faster.
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Sorry to mischaracterize you!
I’m not sure that I saw that explicitly but I do recognize that it ends with a clearly self-serving don’t disband us because we’re “ready to serve whatever administration” :)
It’s totally fair to say that does suggest a call to some level of retreat.
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Not sure I agree. Assuming we’re talking about a democracy, that favors a root in values over natural law. The latter is better advanced by restricting policy making to experts in natural law. If policy is in the “hands of the people”, we bias for values. Though that may not always make good policy.