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All due respect I don't think the article proved or indicated that "everyone has an ideology which overrides logic on many topics." The study found that people
by tj-teej 8y ago
All due respect I don't think the article proved or indicated that "everyone has an ideology which overrides logic on many topics."
The study found that people are less successful at spotting logical fallacies when the conclusions are supported by their politics.
This is itself an interesting finding, but (1) I don't think the "everyone has biases" argument is justified by this article and (2) that precise argument is often used by people to apologize for allying themselves with others who have abhorrent views but are otherwise inline with their political interests (e.g. White Evangelicals in Iowa who vote for Steve King). I'm 1000% not suggesting that you're doing this but I think it's an unfortunate conclusion many draw from your argument.
Yes everyone has some level of irrationality but not everyone has a sound ideology, many people often waiver between conclusions and human judgement is real, important, and helpful.
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- paulsutter 8y agoWhat’s a “sound ideology”?
- kabouseng 8y agoThe answer to that question is obviously : "My ideology"
- ilaksh 8y agoI wasn't trying to say that the article proved "everyone" has an ideology. What the article does say is that among two groups, both groups were influenced by ideology. And I realize that you and many others feel that you are an exception. It is my belief that you are not. I believe that no one is an exception and everyone has an ideology. I know that more often than not "ideoloy" is thought of as something some _other_ group of supposedly _less rational_ people have, but I think that is not the case. So anyway these are beliefs that I have, so they are not something we can discuss constructively. Due to the nature of belief.
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoBoth may have been influenced by ideology, but were the practical outcomes identical?
- lemagedurage 8y agoIn practice you'll be able to find people that are much and people that are almost not influenced by ideology, by some normal distribution. It's safe to say that anyone has been influenced by some ideology at some point, but that's not a strong point to make.
- naniwaduni 8y agoWhy should we suppose a normal distribution? Ideology is pretty clearly not formed by summing independent events--people's interpretations of things seem influenced by their existing beliefs all the time.