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Very well-written article. The examples he gives of studies which supposedly show right-wing prejudice are amazing in how biased the studies themselves are! >
by alphapapa 10y ago
Very well-written article. The examples he gives of studies which supposedly show right-wing prejudice are amazing in how biased the studies themselves are!
> For instance, one study explored ethical decision making by asking people whether they would formally support a female colleague’s complaint of sexual harassment. There was no way to know if the complaint was justified, but anyone who didn’t automatically side with the woman was put in the unethical category. Another study asked people whether they believed that “in the long run, hard work usually brings a better life”—and then classified a yes answer as a “rationalization of inequality.” Another study asked people if they agreed that “the Earth has plenty of natural resources if we just learn how to develop them”—a view held by many experts in resource economics, but the psychologists pathologized it as a “denial of environmental realities.”
And, of course, this story gets downvoted on HN. Not big surprise. :/