That’s Sorted

By Barbara Fister. Information gerrymandering makes us all less likely to compromise – and that’s not good for democracy.
I was intrigued when I saw some coverage of a recent article in Nature that coined an intriguing phrase: information gerrymandering. The six authors come from disparate fields that are not ones I particularly follow on a regular basis – biology, economics, and environmental change. But their experiment adds an intriguing wrinkle to the more information-science and sociology-of-information circles where I tend to eavesdrop. More...