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Studies like this are dangerous. 1. Scientific articles are almost like luxury clickbait these days. Let’s be frank: how many of us paid even the minimum of 1
by the-printer 4y ago
Studies like this are dangerous.
1. Scientific articles are almost like luxury clickbait these days. Let’s be frank: how many of us paid even the minimum of 12 USD for 48-hour access to the complete study and know what they even mean by the title?
2. This study in particular will likely engender the notion, that will now be taken as fact, that political intolerance is indicative of lack of “cognitive ability” (whatever that means). This point itself is an assumption, because the abstract consists of stanzas of loaded jargon.
- jebronie 4y ago
- dang 4y agoYou've been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. We ban accounts that do that—as a matter of fact, I briefly just banned you—but then I took a look at your comment history and decided to warn you instead. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in the intended spirit from now on? Among other things that means curious conversation, no personal attacks, and no swipes.
- wheelinsupial 4y ago> how many of us paid even the minimum of 12 USD for 48-hour access to the complete study and know what they even mean by the title? I know not everyone on HN has a degree or access to college / university, but for those that do, don't you have alumni library access privileges?
- ThrowawayTestr 4y ago> science is dangerous Is this really the level of discussion we're having now?
- the-printer 4y agoYou have betrayed the nature of the angle-bracketed blockquote. Granted my initial response was prior to reading the article, I feel the same independent of the study in question, if not…stronger even, in spite of my errors. Perhaps my error itself is a testament to what I was saying. To entertain your intentional misquote, of course science has the capacity for danger. Is science some sort of monolithic and infallible structure that is incapable of being manipulated to inflict harm? Are you cognitively able to tolerate that?
- ThrowawayTestr 4y agoAre facts dangerous too? Should certain facts be hidden to protect people?
- psychphysic 4y agoOr not having more to the point!
- psychphysic 4y agoWhat is half shocking, half depressing and increasingly common. Is mundane topics becoming "too dangerous" for general discourse. We (well I) mock the idea of religious topics know only to a small career (Rightful Heir star Trek TNG S06E23). Then it occured to me while the Klingons hid the true story of the creation of the original Kutliss by Kahless. People such as yourself would like to hide any topic which might undermine their personal preferred political agenda.