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> civic discussion between people who disagree Unfortunately, you will find only a small minority of the population would be interested this, and therefore the
by smallnamespace 10y ago
> civic discussion between people who disagree
Unfortunately, you will find only a small minority of the population would be interested this, and therefore the network would have a strong self selection bias.
You might find that people who are interested skew heavily liberal, for example, which would strongly reduce the diversity of political opinion.
There's plenty of recent psychological research that suggests that people in general, and conservatives in particular, find uncertainty and disagreement to be actually threatening:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/calling-truce-political-wars/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/calling-truce-poli...
"Psychologists have found that conservatives are fundamentally more anxious than liberals, which may be why they typically desire stability, structure and clear answers even to complicated questions. "
- reitanqild 10y ago> You might find that people who are interested skew heavily liberal, for example, which would strongly reduce the diversity of political opinion. Let me guess you identify as a liberal? :-)
- adrianratnapala 10y agoI don't identify with the left, but I suspect something like that will happen. People who will be interested in a scholarly sort of social net will be university educated, richer than most, and use computers a lot. So we will have a skew there.
- smallnamespace 10y agoSure, but I'm not dumb enough to believe that liberals know the answer to everything. Ask yourself this though -- do you consider openness to new ideas and willingness to challenge orthodoxy a more stereotypically conservative or liberal trait, given that those traits have both upsides and downsides.
- NhanH 10y agoThe "liberal" identity in US is a lossy projection of many different ideology axes to a single one, and is much more closely to just mean "the left" than the definition you meant. I do not believe that they are any more open to new ideas than the right. Both sides stick to the first fancy idea they knew about, and it just happens that those idea are different. "Liberal" as defined with characteristics in your question is orthogonal to whatever "liberal" is in US politics. And if you ignore children, I think it would be a rather small percentage of human.
- hueving 10y agoI find my conservative acquaintances want to argue about politics than my liberal ones. Psychology as a field is effectively garbage. Until they fix their reproducibility problems I wouldnt draw any conclusions from what could very easily be cherry picked data.
- humanrebar 10y agoAgreed. There was a study that was published assigning some traits to conservatives and others to liberals. Then someone found a math error. They had actually flipped which trait was associated with which group. Pretty egregious. At a minimum, it underscores the need for plenty of reproduction, especially in complex fields like psychology and sociology. http://retractionwatch.com/2016/06/07/conservative-political-beliefs-not-linked-to-psychotic-traits/ http://retractionwatch.com/2016/06/07/conservative-political...
- smallnamespace 10y ago> argue about politics Is their motivation to prove that they're right, or to have a discussion and risk being swayed?
- hueving 10y agoSome of both, just like anyone with firmly held beliefs in the liberal camp. Someone extremely anti-religion will frequently engage in religious arguments to prove that they are right, not to risk being turned religious.
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