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Fully agree. Nautilus is usually pretty good but this reads like a piece from someone that is ready to put republicans in camps. “They are physically different
by teekert 2y ago
Fully agree.
Nautilus is usually pretty good but this reads like a piece from someone that is ready to put republicans in camps. “They are physically different so not quite the same humans as the rest of us.”
- esseph 2y agoWow, I didn't get that at all. I guess my biggest take-aways were: 1. indicators of political ideology could be determined in sub-second timeframes 2. the size of the amygdala is larger in those that are more ideologically rigid
- mike_hearn 2y agoThis is the problem, the article is written in such a loose way it's easy to take away slightly incorrect conclusions. It doesn't actually say (2), what it says is that the amygdala is larger in those who are right wing, and then there's lots of language that dances very close to "and right wing people are mentally rigid" without quite stating it outright. Because she wants to sound neutral this notion of being ideological gets inserted into the middle, and she recognizes there are strongly ideological people on the left, but it wouldn't match the conclusions of the study to say that ideological people have a bigger amygdala.