4 ms·

How do you prove that you believe something?

• mjfl 10y ago
  I think it's extremely hard to reverse engineer passionate defense of an issue by a true believer. For example, if you were body-swapped with the late justice Antonin Scalia, I find it highly unlikely that you would be able to argue as vigorously for the conservative cause if you had lived your life as a liberal Silicon Valley tech geek (they'd also see right through you because you'd be a zombie and clearly not the true Scalia). So that's one thing. Perhaps in some extreme pathological case you could have a person live their entire lives faking the opposite political ideology. But that just seems like a waste of energy... And if you can fake being for an issue convincingly enough, doesn't that have the same effect as being for the issue anyways? Like, people would catch on if you wrote about being a Bernie Sanders supporter in your bio, but wrote/submitted all articles about how he doesn't have enough foreign policy experience. The only way to fake being a supporter of something is to.. consistently make solid arguments in support of it.
• pessimizer 10y ago
  By not having anything to sell.
• tdaltonc 10y ago
  It's hard to fake an IAT. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/education.html https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/education.html
  • dlss 10y ago
    In my experience it's relatively easy if you essentially treat an IAT test as a method acting challenge. According to the literature it's relatively easy for study participants when given a couple tries to get it "right": http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2004-17684-002 http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2004-17684-002
  • jcoffland 10y ago
    Is it? I believe it's rather easy actually.