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Nitpick: Applied to democracy, this means that politicians who are voted into office are more dishonest than all the others who aren't. Being voted into offic
by loup-vaillant 11y ago
Nitpick:
Applied to democracy, this means that politicians who are voted into office are more dishonest than all the others who aren't.
Being voted into office doesn't cause dishonesty. It's the reverse: dishonesty helps with being voted into office.
- lovemenot 11y agoYou may have made a valid observation about causes of dishonesty in politics. But that conclusion does not follow from the study. In the study dishonest behaviour is shown to be an effect of winning. Not a cause of winning.
- loup-vaillant 11y agoOh, that's new. Reading the abstract more carefully, I can see that. But then, why does the title says "predict" instead of "causes"?
- dmichulke 11y agoFrom the abstract: Studies 1 and 2 demonstrate that winning a competition increases the likelihood of winners to steal money So while you're not wrong, it doesn't mean my above post is wrong either ;) > Being voted into office doesn't cause dishonesty. It's the reverse: dishonesty helps with being voted into office. This makes intuitive sense (and I even agree with it) but I fail to see this stated in the abstract (didn't read the PDF though)
- unabst 11y agoYou're both right. I think the study is on what it is because that is the less obvious of the two, and the more academically interesting. Cheaters winning is rather obvious. But it's also a chicken and the egg situation. Which came first? Cheating or winning? To each their own probably. The stories of our lives...