Why Twitter can make experts go off the rails when they are wrong: 6 studies show when an expert is publicly called out for a mistake by another expert, their identity becomes threatened & they respond by doubling down with overprecise predictions rather than acknowledging error pic.twitter.com/ZdFKJqKPsi
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) September 1, 2021
In my experience it’s not just Twitter that causes this, but it’s certainly amplified there.