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An experiment demonstrating "rapid social change" wasn't competing with anything substantial - it was temporary belief sets vs temporary belief sets. Social ch
by FrozenVoid 8y ago
An experiment demonstrating "rapid social change" wasn't competing with anything substantial - it was temporary belief sets vs temporary belief sets.
Social change that is against a dominant narrative, mainstream culture or religion will be much harder.
- morelandjs 8y agoThey acknowledge this limitation in the conclusion. Clearly, if the competing labels are "I identify as American" versus "I identify as Chinese", the empirical C=25% fraction would be nonsense. A reasonable real world comparison might be, "What is the fraction of women we need in programming to create a phase change."
- daveFNbuck 8y agoIt also had group sizes of only 20.
- taurath 8y agoThough nearly all radical social change involves a slow moving of the Overton window. If you can move a concept from unthinkable to radical, eventually radical can become considered