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Interestingly that is what the article implies - though they use the term teleological thinking to refer to the belief things happen for a reason.
by codezero 8y ago
Interestingly that is what the article implies - though they use the term teleological thinking to refer to the belief things happen for a reason.
- sometimesijust 8y agoActually that's not what the study implies. They found "rejection of science and animism" to be a stronger predictor of conspiracism. Although "finalism" was found to be second best so it is certainly part of the mix but going off this study you could not say it is the fundamental cause. In fact the researchers are careful to point out that they have established correlation and not cause.
- codezero 8y agoThanks for clarifying. This is clearly out of my league :)