• IHave69XiBucks@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    The beauty of these studies is because the words they use mean nothing the study can mean anything. “Right wing authoritarianism” What is right wing? Biden? Trump? They both are to me. But likely the study doesnt think biden is right wing. Did they count all Israel supporters as right wing? What were the left wing authoritarian supporters? Democrats? Green party libs? Based Stalinists?

    Its like saying i did a study of cool people and found they all have bigger toes than average. What makes someone cool? Who decides whats cool and isnt cool? All governments are authoritarian so was this study just on anyone that isnt a full blown anarchist? Where do they draw the line?

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      The study cites this for how they measured each form of “authoritarianism”:

      The study it cites about “left-wing authoritarianism” explicitly states that it “strongly correlates with engagement in political violence” in the abstract and for why they think their research matters, which makes it sound like they want to get some phrenology-based “Minority Report” thing going.

      I find this kind of research very suspicious overall.

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        ya i find it super sus too. Like even assuming the studies finding are infalliable and true which they arent, you still have correlation/causation issues. Issues with the interplay of each persons political views with their own existing government, for example a communist in the USA or in China has a very different lived experience. Its just a nonsense study imo.

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      to make any sense at all of this kind of study result, it is definitely necessary to go read the entire thing, and then if it’s a survey, the survey questions themselves, which are often unavailable. and also the article itself is probably paywalled too.