Contagion and Homophily

by Henry Farrell on April 29, 2010 · 1 comment

in Other social science

Cosma Shalizi illustrates# how they can easily be confounded, even in asymmetric relationships, with the example of the relationship between neo-conservatism, death-metal music, and Straussian theory.

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Joel April 29, 2010 at 12:33 pm

I just spent an hour following links within links from here.

Thanks for this little post. I learned a lot (although I already knew about Norwegian Black Metal).

And some of it was even professionally useful.

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