#Cliques

#Memes are basically clique-ish.

They are not there to so much convince no-believers of something, but to reinforce the believes of the believers, to be shared by believers.

And maybe in that why, they are to taunt the non-believers, to criticise or insult them.

Or memes are in jokes whose references only the initiated will get.

Either way, they reinforce the superglue bonds between members of a clique.

#Cliques

The nasty neighbor effect in humans
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adm7968

* humans often cooperate more with an in-group member than with out-group members and strangers
* people invest more when facing an in-group rather than out-group member or stranger across 51 nations\
* this “nasty neighbor” behavior is independent of in-group favoritism in trust and emerges when people perceive within-group resource scarcity

#cooperation #cliques #psychology #neighbors #favoritism #resources

From a conversation with a friend on a recent Facebook post. A memory of a memory, #academic ghosts haunting the dusty rooms of my brain.

I once spent a very enjoyable afternoon in the #University of #Minnesota #Biostatistics department library reading through century-old bound volumes of #Biometrika, which is now a somewhat obscure #journal, but was in its day instrumental to the development of #statistics. All the great names were there—#Yule, #Pearson, #Fisher, et al.—and it was a clubby little world back then. Everybody who was anybody in statistics knew everybody else.

Just like today, they used a lot of space in their papers refuting each other's papers. But the writing style was completely different, much more personal: many of the papers read more like conversations than the structured, pedantic language of modern journal articles in practically every field. "First I tried this, but it didn't work, so next I ..." "Like I said to so-and-so in a recent letter ..." "According to whosit, such-and-such is true, but frankly, whosit is an idiot."

Well, I recognized what they were doing: forming #cliques and having slow-motion #flamewars. Everything old is new again. Sometimes I wonder if we wouldn't be better off stripping out the modern pretense of detachment.

One aspect of the #gangs, often quaintly referred to as "#cliques" by mainstream media, in the Los Angeles County #Sheriff's Department is hardly ever mentioned.

It is that what happens in #LA doesn't stay in LA.

Many gang affiliated officers move to other leadership positions in #California or across the country.

Check out Cerise Castle's amazing reporting below.

Print series:
https://knock-la.com/lasd-gangs-little-devils-wayside-whities-cavemen-vikings/

#Podcast:
https://linktr.ee/atraditionofviolence

#LosAngeles #justice #law

@artsyashfork I feel the same way in group chats or groups that have been setup for a while, and everyone knows everyone else...

#Cliques #Excluded #Autistic #ADHD