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Are you saying that the ideas aren't getting oversimplified as they spread out from experts who spent a lot of time thinking about them to the general populatio
by gizmo686 8y ago
Are you saying that the ideas aren't getting oversimplified as they spread out from experts who spent a lot of time thinking about them to the general population (even restricted to on campus)? Let alone when the ideas spread into the realm of politics or activism.
What other subject does this hold true for?
- ggggtez 8y agoI think this is trying to be a leading question but I honestly have no idea what you are trying to say.
- gizmo686 8y agoI would catagorized it as a rhetorical question instead of a leading question, but yes. My point is that, across all domains of significant public inteterest, a simmilar pattern arises. The actual beliefs of the less informed members of the public actually mirror what experts would view as a strawman of those beliefs. Doubly so on political topics where even proponents of the idea spread a sumplified version. Maybe this issue is somehow special, and everyone who thinks they understand it actually do. Or maybe the author, who actually studied what people think, is correct and therr is a significant population that actually buys into the strawman.