Describe an informational cascade. How does it occur? What effect does it create?
What will be an ideal response?
- Speakers must be careful not to confuse the acceptance of an idea by many people as being the same as solid rhetorical proof.
- The advent of social media has enhanced the probability that a claim will be amplified rapidly, repeated by many people, and will be enough to convince others that it is true.
- This is known as informational cascade.
- A speaker must remember that there is a tendency for an audience to believe that a claim is true just because someone else says it is.
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