Extremists incapable of complex thought
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Maybe we should encourage all jihadists and other extremist nutters to refuse covid vaccinations and gather together in a prolonged, intimate, closely-confined national huddle somewhere, preferably offshore. After all, many of the daft buggers want to engage in suicide missions anyway.
Make it a self-curing problem!
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There' always a nature/nurture question with social sciences research though, isn't there?
If I grow up in a family where complexity is never discussed but my identical twin grows up in a chattering Islington suburb, do we both end up with similar capabilities and worldviews?
Maybe the problem is identical twins. The bastards practically beg scientists to experiment on them. I wrote summat for an abandoned project, think I might resurrect it as a sub
Posted 1 week ago # -
Nice to read something that reinforces with evidence what was obvious without it
It doesn't just cover the crazies who blow themselves up, of course: the paper uses the word "extremist" to cover people who have opinions far from the norm in any context, whatever these people latch on to - political poles, homophobia, religious intolerance, racism - basically anything beyond their comprehension
The research was conducted in the US, and I presume the generally lower standard of education over there is a big factor in the rise of far-right activism. It also implies a long-term solution to that: educate people better
Of course, extremes are in context, so people with lower abilities anywhere can more easily be steered off course
Hence, the increase of nationalism & racism throughout Europe
PS
A factor the original report (published by The Royal Society) perhaps missed is that it's all relativeSomeone of lower abilities among similar others won't become extreme; it's the distant presence of those with more abilities (and money!) that help the cause
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A key finding was that people with extremist attitudes tended to think about the world in black and white terms...Participants who are prone to dogmatism – stuck in their ways and relatively resistant to credible evidence – actually have a problem with processing evidence even at a perceptual level, the authors found.
Titus: “Shit! That’s me...[cognitive dissonance kicks in]...by ‘extremest’ they must mean ‘jihadists’ and ‘nutters’; definitely not me.”
Hahahahahahahahaha!
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