[kyrieeschaton]

> Data collected by eminent political scientist suggests ethnic diversity, amongst other things, massively lowers social trust

> "Wow just wow what a 'racist campaign for the return of segregation'"

I wonder why it is so difficult to do or publish research in this area?

[clairity]

for one, editorializing by using an emotionally-charged term like "massively", which indicates bias, and incidentally lowers trust.

in any case, it's not ethnic diversity that impacts social trust but (sub-)cultural friction, which can happen between subsets ('tribes") of the same ethnicity (which is mostly a superfluous distinction anyway). tabs vs spaces, for instance.

we like to imagine mountains out of molehills and then point to our mounded constructions to prove how we're so irreconcileably different, but it's often a thin veil over an insecure assertion of authority and superiority.

[hinkley]

Well, I mean of course an Old Boy's Network has more trust.

An echo chamber is trusting yourself and the other members - even when that trust is misplaced.

[ETA: does someone think I'm implying that's a good thing? It's not. It's bad for everyone, even the perpetrators.]