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How Social Science Might Be Misunderstanding Conservatives - Syne - Jul 16, 2018 http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/how-social-science-might-be-misunderstanding-conservatives.html The above, fictional questionnaire is an extreme example, but a growing insurgency within social and political psychology has begun to argue, credibly, that a version of this has been going on for decades — only the other way around. Liberal psych researchers, centering their work on liberal values and political opinions, have built up a body of knowledge that is fundamentally flawed and biased. As a result, certain false ideas about conservatives and how they differ from liberals may have taken hold. One of the many reasons conservatives understand leftists far better than vice versa. RE: How Social Science Might Be Misunderstanding Conservatives - C C - Jul 16, 2018 Piously unquestioning the preconditions and settings for working operation -- or standards and guidelines for interpretation of data -- as if they were found under a rock of nature rather than invented. ~ |