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Understandings of Artificial Intelligence in online climate change contrarian communities [PDF]

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Despite widespread scientific consensus on the impacts of anthropogenic climate change, many people still deny its reality, which hinders global mitigation and adaptation efforts.
Vasiljev, Anastasija
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Herding and Contrarian Behaviour in Financial Markets

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Rational herd behavior and informationally efficient security prices have long been considered to be mutually exclusive but for exceptional cases. In this paper we describe the conditions on the underlying information structure that are necessary and ...
Park, A., Sabourian, H.
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The Subjectivist-Contrarian Position

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
James Buchanan endorses a radical version of subjectivism at several points in his body of work. I distinguish two distinct criteria for subjectivism in Buchanan. First, Buchanan rejects the realism of preferences, arguing that they serve only as an analytical tool for understanding choice.
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Analyst Contrarianism

Journal of Financial Reporting, 2019
ABSTRACT We examine a specific form of what we term analyst contrarianism. We define contrarianism as cases where an analyst expresses a summary opinion contrary to the direction of a given earnings surprise or revision. Distinct from analyst optimism or boldness, we document that analysts interpret negative (positive) earnings news ...
Zahn Bozanic, Jing Chen, Michael J. Jung
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On the Contrarian Investment Strategy

The Journal of Business, 1988
Recent research has found an abnormal return on the strategy of buying lo sers and selling winners in the stock market, a finding sometimes int erpreted as support for the market overreaction hypothesis. This arti cle explores an alternative interpretation of this evidence. The auth or finds that the risks of losers and winners are not constant.
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Contrarian MacParity

Economics Letters, 1996
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Contrarians and volatility clustering

Complex Syst., 1994
Summary: We introduce a new origin of volatility clustering in economic time series generated by systems of interacting adaptive agents. Each agent is assigned a random subset of a fixed collection of predictors. At every time step each agent generates an action based upon its assigned predictors.
E. R. Grannan, G. H. Swindle
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CONTRARIAN ANTHROPOLOGY

2018
Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist’s work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field ...
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Regulatory Contrarians

2010
This Essay explores the role that "regulatory contrarians" can play in promoting more adaptive financial regulation. Such contrarians have several distinguishing features. First, they possess persuasive authority by virtue of their position, access to media and officials, or speaking engagements and reports. Second, they are affiliated with, and enjoy
Brett H. McDonnell, Daniel Schwarcz
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The radiology assistant: a contrarian’s view

Emergency Radiology, 2005
Recent and rapid increases in the utilization of diagnostic imaging have not been matched by concomitant additions to the supply of radiologists and radiology technologists. One proposal to alleviate an expected worsening of this emerging workforce crisis is to create a new job category, the radiology assistant (RA), encompassing a roster of enhanced ...
Stephen R, Baker, Alex, Merkulov
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