Another way to phrase “memory-focused interventions” might be “re-education camps for the techno-slaves with unlimited waterboarding recreational opportunities.”
Tomato, tomaahto.
“We really need camps for adults,” Hillary Clinton declared in 2015, shortly before her unprecedented defeat at the hands of a political novice former game show host and real estate mogul — a loss which, by, the way, instead learning any lessons from, she blamed on Russia.
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It’s truly mind-bending to contemplate what America might look like in 2025 if things had gone differently — only slightly in a few battleground states — in 2016.
Back to the study at hand.Via Neuroscience News (emphasis added):
New research reveals that short, memory-focused interventions can help individuals resist misinformation more effectively and retain these skills over extended periods, acting as “psychological booster shots.” The study evaluated text-based messages, videos, and interactive games that teach people how to spot and resist misleading information.
Memory-focused interventions showed the greatest long-term effectiveness, suggesting regular psychological “boosters” could enhance misinformation resistance. Researchers emphasize these memory-enhancing methods could significantly benefit public education and digital literacy programs, addressing misinformation challenges in health, politics, and beyond.
What they did, in a nutshell, was to “inoculate” study participants against wrongthink by exposing them to indoctrinatory material, then subjecting them to material deemed “misinformation” by some arbitrary metric devised by scientists with God complexes to measure if the indoctrination holds up.
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Via Nature Communications (emphasis added):
The first intervention (used in Study 1) is a passive, issue-focused, text-based intervention that inoculates participants against misinformation about the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming. The second intervention (used in Study 2) is an active, technique-focused, online inoculation game (Bad News), in which participants have to create and spread their own misinformation, albeit in severely weakened form (i.e., using humorous examples that highlight the flaws in the misinformation in a safe, controlled environment), as part of a simulated social media environment. The third intervention (Studies 3–5) is a short video that inoculates people against a technique that is often used to mislead people. This video-based intervention was shown to be effective at improving people’s ability to detect misleading headlines that use a range of different manipulation strategies in a field study on YouTube. The videos have been shown to over 5 million YouTube users as an educational advertisement in the United States, with effects lasting up to at least 24 h. Similar videos have been successfully used in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as in Germany, with over 42 million views.
I honestly don’t know what the noteworthy conclusion of this research is even supposed to be apart from “propaganda works wonders.”
But we’ve known that since basically the dawn of time. 20th century dictatorships turned it into an art form.
Who decided this was worth funding?
Continuing:
Memory was consistently the most dominant outcome predictor, and booster shots consistently helped to restore intervention effects. Moreover, multiple forms of booster shots were shown to be effective: repeated interventions (see Study 1), new interventions targeting the same techniques (see Study 2), memory boosters (see Study 5), and quizzing participants in the form of posttesting (see results Study 3 vs Study 5).
