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Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
1) He also explains why he believes that social media should come with more guardrails.
2) Focusing on a trend in which tic disorders seem to spread via TikTok videos, Bartholomew breaks down why this ‘placebo effect in reverse’ can still cause genuine illness
3) In Believing Is Seeing, Robert Bartholomew, a sociologist at the University of Auckland, argues that our exceedingly interconnected world of social media is just as conducive for social panics as secluded mediaeval convents once were.
4) Indeed, the historical record dates back to mediaeval Europe – including one notorious case in which nuns were reported to be meowing in unison like cats.
5) The phenomenon known as ‘mass psychogenic illness’ (MPI) – in which a group of people starts feeling sick with similar symptoms in the absence of a clear physical reason – is nothing new.
Arrange the following into a meaningful sequence:
1) He also explains why he believes that social media should come with more guardrails.
2) Focusing on a trend in which tic disorders seem to spread via TikTok videos, Bartholomew breaks down why this ‘placebo effect in reverse’ can still cause genuine illness
3) In Believing Is Seeing, Robert Bartholomew, a sociologist at the University of Auckland, argues that our exceedingly interconnected world of social media is just as conducive for social panics as secluded mediaeval convents once were.
4) Indeed, the historical record dates back to mediaeval Europe – including one notorious case in which nuns were reported to be meowing in unison like cats.
5) The phenomenon known as ‘mass psychogenic illness’ (MPI) – in which a group of people starts feeling sick with similar symptoms in the absence of a clear physical reason – is nothing new.
1) He also explains why he believes that social media should come with more guardrails.
2) Focusing on a trend in which tic disorders seem to spread via TikTok videos, Bartholomew breaks down why this ‘placebo effect in reverse’ can still cause genuine illness
3) In Believing Is Seeing, Robert Bartholomew, a sociologist at the University of Auckland, argues that our exceedingly interconnected world of social media is just as conducive for social panics as secluded mediaeval convents once were.
4) Indeed, the historical record dates back to mediaeval Europe – including one notorious case in which nuns were reported to be meowing in unison like cats.
5) The phenomenon known as ‘mass psychogenic illness’ (MPI) – in which a group of people starts feeling sick with similar symptoms in the absence of a clear physical reason – is nothing new.
Updated On: Aug 14, 2024
- 1,2,3,4,5
- 5,4,3,2,1
- 3,1,2,4,5
- 2,5,1,3,4
- 4,1,3,5,2
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The Correct Option is B
Solution and Explanation
5 is the starting sentence as it introduces the topic of MPI. % is followed by 4. 5 states that MPI is nothing new and 4 states that it goes back to mediaeval Europe.
3-2-1 is about Bartholomew’s theory.
Hence 54321 is the correct answer.
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