Seems we assume our friends agree with us, just because they are our friends. Yes you agree with your friends more than with random folk, but you agree less than you think:
My mother attracts these people like a flame attracts moths. She has many friends, and a story for virtually each of them when she revealed an opinion contrasting with the friend's, and the friend was taken aback in utter amazement (or in a few cases, literal flat-out disbelief).
My mother attracts these people like a flame attracts moths. She has many friends, and a story for virtually each of them when she revealed an opinion contrasting with the friend's, and the friend was taken aback in utter amazement (or in a few cases, literal flat-out disbelief).
I'm painfully aware of how much I disagree with friends, actually.
Here's a blog post about it by the first author (Sharad Goel) which includes a link to a free version of the paper: http://messymatters.com/fri...