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> It might seem intuitive to believe that people with less education are more manipulable. But research suggests this may not be true. > High-status people are
by throwawayqqq11 3y ago
> It might seem intuitive to believe that people with less education are more manipulable. But research suggests this may not be true.
> High-status people are more preoccupied with how others view them. Which means that educated and/or affluent people may be especially prone to peripheral, as opposed to central, methods of persuasion.
There is a hidden assumtion in the above part. Did you spot it?
It is that educated people are also high status people, are also (overly) concerned about their reputation.
If this assumptions breaks, all the following about perpetuated ideology stands on a weak basis. After all, more educated people could tend to be more rational too.
To be fair, i would my left leaning ideology be based more on reason and not on my educational sociotope. May be just my bias.
- cdot2 3y agoEveryone believes their ideology is based on reason and not determined by their sociotope. My sociotope just happens to be the most reasonable one.
- calderknight 3y agoEveryone? Plenty of people don't practice ideological thinking in the first place.
- fourthark 3y agoUnless one doesn't think at all, or is completely inconsistent, one will have ideology.
- calderknight 3y agoSeems like a pretty crazy claim, want to share your reasoning?
- fourthark 3y agoMerriam-Webster: "Ideology: a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture" No ideology = no characteristic thinking. If you think you don't have ideology, you probably have the dominant one. Or don't think.
- calderknight 3y agoEpic logic fail. You're affirming the consequent. Just because A -> B, and we have B, doesn't mean we can conclude A. Sure, Idealogy -> a manner of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture But A manner of thinking characteristic of an individual -> idealogy Doesn't follow from that!
- fourthark 3y agoIt's a definition, not a consequent. Definition is equality not if-then.
- calderknight 3y agoYou'd be right if it was actually a definition. But it's not. It deals with the attributes of the thing rather than the thing's essence. Like, the "definition" of car is 'a vehicle moving on wheels', but we can't from that conclude that all vehicles moving on wheels are cars.
- fourthark 3y agoI guess you have a more narrow definition of ideology!
- handoflixue 3y agoIdeology is often used both in the sense of "A well organized philosophy shared by numerous people" and "one's own personal philosophy". For instance, from https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ideology https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ideology, "the body of doctrine, myth, belief, etc., that guides an individual (...)"
- Georgelemental 3y agoI have a very different ideology from most of my social milieu. That's how I know I am truly enlightened and rational /s
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoTHey define High Status: > Which means that educated and/or affluent Both are equally tarred with similar traits, which I think the article describes quite well.
- pauldenton 3y agoA lot of people who are supposed to be held in high status are actually held in contempt. Republicans hating Fauci and Biden no matter how much of an expert high status they are. And Democrats calling Trump or Bush #notmypresident means they won't recognize his authority no matter how much education either of them got