The best way to win an argument? Shout louder than everyone else!

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By VICTORIA WOOLLASTON

Being confident and loud is the best way to win an argument - even if you are wrong, a new study suggests.

Researchers from Washington State University drew this conclusion after studying the activity of Twitter users. The more opinionated they were, the more influential and trustworthy they were perceived to be.

They analysed more than a billion tweets posted during various American sporting events, including the 2013 Super Bowl, to the test whether being accurate or being confident made Twitter users more popular.

Despite professional pundits and amateur fans making a similar amount of correct and incorrect predictions, the tweeters who 'yelled' louder were seen as more trustworthy and had more followers.



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The Bill-o method of persuasion....

[el_bryanto]

1. HOW DO YOU TWEET LOUDER THAN EVERYONE ELSE??!!?!?!?!!

I'm really curious.

Bryant

[Fuddnik]

4. Tweet in all CAPS with lots of exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[graham4anything]

2. If one has a big clique (statistically can be a small #)will outshout an individual 100% of the time

It's what made "Vote for the worst" so successful
(note-they are a site that for 12 years on American Idol has implored its readers to mass vote for the worst person on the show and has caused people with no talent to advance to a much higher rank.
One reason that the Voice has a totally different system, and more heavily relies on actual sales of songs on ITunes (so that one has to actually spend money, not just text for free).

Politically it is the same.

[HiPointDem]

3. fascists and powermongers agree.

[meow2u3]

5. Pointing a gun to someone's head comes a close second

If you can't win an argument by screaming louder than the other guy (or gal), pull out a gun and threaten to kill him or her.

[madmom]

6. My dad is one who likes to argue. I quieted him when he started

with the loud, almost yelling by saying..."just because you are louder, doesn't mean you are right!" Everyone who heard it snickered at him and he stopped.