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> Probably the most unexpected alignment of the current term! Not so! There are many decisions by Kavanaugh that "liberals" (it's weird to me that they're call
by microcolonel 7y ago
> Probably the most unexpected alignment of the current term!
Not so! There are many decisions by Kavanaugh that "liberals" (it's weird to me that they're called than in the U.S.) will have trouble predicting the opinions of conservatives [0].
“Who was best able to pretend to be the other?
The results were clear and consistent. Moderates and conservatives were most accurate in their predictions, whether they were pretending to be liberals or conservatives. Liberals were the least accurate, especially those who described themselves as "very liberal." The biggest errors in the whole study came when liberals answered the care and fairness questions while pretending to be conservatives. When faced with statements such as "one of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenseless animal" or "justice is the most important requirement for a society," liberals assumed that conservatives would disagree.”
And they're probably even worse at this now than they were in 2012, if the inanity of the mainstream moral caricatures is anything to go by.
[0]: https://reason.com/2012/04/10/born-this-way https://reason.com/2012/04/10/born-this-way
- gamblor956 7y agoOne of the things that Haidt leaves out of his article is that the % of difference between liberals and conservatives was within the margin of error. His findings have also never been validated, even by other conservative scholars, and he refuses to provide the data from this study. (Also, the study was a survey given to people attending the Reagan Library during the work week, so a highly self-selective bunch...) (Jonathan Haidt was a hero of one of my professors...until the scholarly issues with Haidt's research came to light.)