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> I won't be surprised if ... Do you think you would be more surprised, less surprised, or about the same, if the situation were reversed? Let's try a thought
by qiqing 9y ago
> I won't be surprised if ...
Do you think you would be more surprised, less surprised, or about the same, if the situation were reversed? Let's try a thought experiment.
Hypothetically, say, a Singaporean company was trying to take over a Chinese company (both companies in this case have Chinese citizen executives), and the Chinese government was trying to block it. And let's say there's news coverage apropos of nothing, that American companies would be the indirect beneficiaries, so the US was (wink, wink) behind it all. What is your level of surprise then?
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- ausjke 9y agono need to over-react, unlike in china, here we do have free speech so just get used to it, and the comment is actually neutral to all countries, as it stated.
- qiqing 9y agoI grew up in the US. I'm accustomed to free speech, thanks. Not sure why you're offended by the thought experiment. A thought experiment where you swap one variable and see how it sounds reversed is a very useful tool for detecting cognitive bias. Cognitive bias is a major source of racism. Racism is something I experienced growing up here, and one of my chief worries when reading articles like this.