People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks
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#3TL;DR:
> In some cognitive tasks, participants were asked to respond as quickly and as accurately as possible. People who leant towards the politically conservative tended to go for the slow and steady strategy, while political liberals took a slightly more fast and furious, less precise approach.
> “What we found is that demographics don’t explain a whole lot; they only explain roughly 8% of the variance,” said Zmigrod. “Whereas, actually, when we incorporate these cognitive and personality assessments as well, suddenly, our capacity to explain the variance of these ideological world-views jumps to 30% or 40%.”
This says nothing about the direction of cause and effect.
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#4TL;DR: > In some cognitive tasks, participants were asked to respond as quickly and as accurately as possible. People who leant towards the politically conservative tended to go for the slow and steady strategy, while political liberals took a slightly more fast and furious, less precise approach. > “What we found is that demographics don’t explain a whole lot; they only explain roughly 8% of the variance,” said Zmig…
No, and if you click through to the publication, the authors to not assert a causal relationship is demonstrated by their findings. Instead they suggest that rigidity of thought and interpretation may be a tool useful for identifying individuals at risk for radicalization. If replicated, such an association could be useful, irrespective of causality.
I'm curious why you are attempting to hold the authors to a standard that they do not claim themselves is supported by their data.
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#5Ah yes, now we have studies showing people who don’t agree with the liberal left are stupid and slow. The ultimate ad hominem.
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#6I think Unabomber was quite capable of complex mental tasks. (Yes, yes, anecdote is not data).
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#7TL;DR: > In some cognitive tasks, participants were asked to respond as quickly and as accurately as possible. People who leant towards the politically conservative tended to go for the slow and steady strategy, while political liberals took a slightly more fast and furious, less precise approach. > “What we found is that demographics don’t explain a whole lot; they only explain roughly 8% of the variance,” said Zmig…
No, and if you click through to the publication, the authors to not assert a causal relationship is demonstrated by their findings. Instead they suggest that rigidity of thought and interpretation may be a tool useful for identifying individuals at risk for radicalization. If replicated, such an association could be useful, irrespective of causality. I'm curious why you are attempting to hold the authors to a standar…
That in itself is evidence of their progressive bias.
If academia was dominated by those of the opposite persuasion, this study might conclude with suggestions that individuals who are more suggestible and impulsive are prone to having their malleable minds contorted towards progressive radicalisation.
Re: People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks
#8TL;DR: > In some cognitive tasks, participants were asked to respond as quickly and as accurately as possible. People who leant towards the politically conservative tended to go for the slow and steady strategy, while political liberals took a slightly more fast and furious, less precise approach. > “What we found is that demographics don’t explain a whole lot; they only explain roughly 8% of the variance,” said Zmig…
It would make sense though. Extremist views tend to be very simplistic black&white, this = good; not this = evil. Someone less capable of complex thought would find the simpler messages more appealing, and thus be more susceptible to them. Fur = murder. Immigrant = criminal.
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#9Ah yes, now we have studies showing people who don’t agree with the liberal left are stupid and slow. The ultimate ad hominem.
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Re: People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks
#10Ah yes, now we have studies showing people who don’t agree with the liberal left are stupid and slow. The ultimate ad hominem.
Black-or-white and dogmatic thinking being displayed right here...