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Yet another clickbait headline. Further down in the article, it says: "Of course, people tend to show more moral gumption in surveys than they do in real life.
by jensen123 11y ago
Yet another clickbait headline.
Further down in the article, it says: "Of course, people tend to show more moral gumption in surveys than they do in real life. In part this is because we are dealing with hypotheticals (who isn’t against child labor, in principle?). But also, people don't usually ponder issues of inequality while they’re buying their milk and groceries."
- thaumasiotes 11y ago> who isn’t against child labor, in principle? Tons of people. They need their children's income.
- misframer 11y agoMaybe in practice, but in principle?
- thaumasiotes 11y agoSeriously, virtually no one is against child labor in principle. What people are against is bad jobs. Microsoft didn't put much effort into complying with child labor law (and was therefore generally in violation) because the parents of the children it employed viewed working at Microsoft as beneficial.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoRE value of polls, there's this quote I love: "[A]s of 2010, only 34% of people polled strongly supported letting homosexuals serve in the military, but half again as many — a full 51% — expressed that level of support for letting ‘gays and lesbians’ serve in the military. Ever since reading that I’ve worried about how many important decisions are being made by the 17% of people who support gays and lesbians but not homosexuals." http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/15/trouble-walking-down-the-hallway/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/15/trouble-walking-down-th...
- crdoconnor 11y agoThere's a similar gulf between people who support "more government assistance for people on low incomes" (popular) and people who support "more welfare" (unpopular). I think certain words are given negative/positive associations by the media and those overtones have a lot more impact if you're only spending 4 seconds per question than if you're really thinking about it.
- tsotha 11y ago>There's a similar gulf between people who support "more government assistance for people on low incomes" (popular) and people who support "more welfare" (unpopular). Those are not the same thing, though. Someone with a low income has a job, presumably.
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- crdoconnor 11y agoActually it was "government assistance for the poor" - not low incomes - that rated highly on polls, which presumably includes people without jobs. My mistake.