Neil Pettinger on How to Inform the World

I enjoyed reading that, some really interesting points. One thought it prompted was when you quoted Nathan Heller ("Trump seemed to think that much of the voting public couldn't be bothered with details—couldn't be bothered to fact-check, or deal with fact checkers. [...] Detail, even when it's available, doesn't travel widely after all. Big, sloppy notions do. […]"). It made me think of a post that Enrico Bertini wrote on Substack a week or so ago (https://filwd.substack.com/p/titles-in-data-visualization-empirical) when he was alerting us to research on how people look at the titles of charts more than the actual content of charts. Looking at a chart's title and not the chart itself is a bit like not bothering with the details, not bothering to fact-check...