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Pretty interesting, I'd strongly suggest anyone commenting read the article because the researchers use two distinct definitions of "political correctness" whic
by mywittyname 6y ago
Pretty interesting, I'd strongly suggest anyone commenting read the article because the researchers use two distinct definitions of "political correctness" which they show to be strongly anti-correlated, with the common usage of political correctness being anti-correlated with the Dark Triad and the "authoritarian" one being correlated to both the Dark Triad and alt-right behavior.
In other words, the title has been changed from the original, "The Dark Triad traits predict authoritarian political correctness and alt-right attitudes" and mis-represents the author's findings.
I'd argue that "authoritarian political correctness" is the wrong term for questions such as, "When a charge of sexual assault is brought forth, the alleged perpetrator should have to prove his or her innocence” as that's straight up authoritarianism. While, "There are no biologically based differences in personality, talent, andability to reason, between racial groups." is pretty well aligned with conventional political correctness.
The fact that the researchers themselves show that agreement in one of those statements strongly correlated with disagreement with the other is evidence that supports my opinion.