Andrea Jones-Rooy

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #978 - Apr 6 2024 podcast

And, you know, you think about parts of the U.S., you think about other parts of the world where we follow protests, the Hong Kong protests.

And it's interesting to think about, you know, the impact of a culture that we're building today for protests.

I think about it in light of January 6th and what sort of culture, you know, a single event isn't going to do it.

But

But just being able to trace this historical effect is interesting.

But mostly I think it's just a brilliant research design.

And so rarely do we get to see this kind of stuff in the social sciences.

So I was just thrilled that they're doing it.

Right.

It helps us overcome the collective action problem or the coordination problem, which is, you know, you know, and that's why you see, you know, after George Floyd is such a it's a it's a sad example, but a very strong example of this where there's been injustice against black Americans for a very long time.

But then this thing happens and everyone says, oh.

I know that if I take to the streets today, a lot of other people are likely to join me because we all just observed this same thing.

And then, of course, there's network effects, and we can get each other, you know, encourage one another and communicate.

But generally speaking, a challenge of protest is...

is this collective action problem.

And so it's helpful to see a big thing.

You know, you think about the Arab Spring, you know, it was the incident in Tunisia that sparked, literally, I shouldn't have used that word, everyone to take to the streets.

So usually something big has to happen.

And so their argument is this total solar eclipse is a rare enough

yet totally shared experience that helps us overcome this collective action problem because we know that it's a sign that government's not doing their job and what better signal of weakness and what better moment to take to the streets than this right interesting that's really fascinating

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