This Machine Can Tell Whether You're Liberal or Conservative
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This Machine Can Tell Whether You're Liberal or Conservative
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#2This sounds a lot like Robert Shea's & Robert Anton Wilson's division of humanity into neophiles and neophobes in the Illuminatus! trilogy.
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#3Some other features that can help classify a liberal:
Weaker upper and lower body strength. Weaker immune system, lower T-cell counts. Weaker ability to detect odors and tastes like burning smoke and acrid compounds.
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#4But what if I take the results this machine gives, and then immediately start supporting candidates at the opposite end of the spectrum?
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#5Some other features that can help classify a liberal: Weaker upper and lower body strength. Weaker immune system, lower T-cell counts. Weaker ability to detect odors and tastes like burning smoke and acrid compounds.
Not to mention excellent fashion sense. Conservatives are so Carharrt.
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#6Some other features that can help classify a liberal: Weaker upper and lower body strength. Weaker immune system, lower T-cell counts. Weaker ability to detect odors and tastes like burning smoke and acrid compounds.
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#7Some other features that can help classify a liberal: Weaker upper and lower body strength. Weaker immune system, lower T-cell counts. Weaker ability to detect odors and tastes like burning smoke and acrid compounds.
I'm wondering if you're being legitimate and informative, or just trolling.
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#8That picture at the top is horrifying. Looks like she is undergoing the Ludovico technique http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjAxODIxMDQwNl5BMl5Ban...
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#9But what if I take the results this machine gives, and then immediately start supporting candidates at the opposite end of the spectrum?
I don't claim this view of the world is true, but the analogies they might make is that would be same as
1. Learning to use your righthand dominantly as a lefthanded person. 2. Pretending you were heteronormal when you were actually queer
Both examples have been commonly seen in the world.
That is you can use your executive function to override (m)any of your intrinsic personality traits, but physiologically you remain either gay, lefthanded, or liberal/conservative.
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#10Left/right or liberal/conservative are false dichotomies, at least in U.S. politics. Both major parties are willing to use coercion to achieve their goals, and they don't even differ very much in what those goals are.
The real divide is between authoritarians and anti-authoritarians. It would be interesting to see a similar study (or the results of this study re-analyzed) with liberal/conservative replaced with authoritarian/live-and-let-live.