Fuck off Kel, who would bother their bollocks to record a survey accurately just to win $8? 😆
Kel Varnsen wrote: Dirty commie bastards: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21607830-more-people-are-exposed-socialism-worse-they-behave-lying-commies?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fpe%2Fed%2Flyingcommies 😆
Dirty commie bastards: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21607830-more-people-are-exposed-socialism-worse-they-behave-lying-commies?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fpe%2Fed%2Flyingcommies 😆
"It might be a function of the relative poverty of East Germans, for example."
Uh …
Here's a good'un, not a pseudoscientific study, but a Mark Ames tinfoil hat special on the origins of "libertarianism":
http://www.alternet.org/visions/true-history-libertarianism-america-phony-ideology-promote-corporate-agenda?paging=off¤t_page=1#bookmark
Communists and libertarians have a lot in common. They both live in some weird, parallel universe.
Edit: Here's the full study. Interesting read. These little psychological experiments are fascinating. Though, external validity is always a concern. http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/20974/
Dirty commie bastards: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21607830-more-people-are-exposed-socialism-worse-they-behave-lying-commies?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fpe%2Fed%2Flyingcommies
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😆 What a waste of time. The really sad part is that someone somewhere decided to fund this.
The bizarre universe parallel to your own, Kel, where "morality is relevant" …
The West/East Germany study's a bit reminiscent of the Berkeley Monopoly study from a little while back:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/07/22/rich-people-cheat-lie-and-steal-more-often-than-poor-people-video/
Please BW... You're just mad communists are found to be cheating and immoral. 😆
😆 Ok, I'll admit it's not a good look …
Of course it's at this stage a real Leninist (as opposed to me) would point out the methodological flaws in the authoritarian, statist brand of socialism practised in East Germany.
I admit I posted it just for a bit of fun. The study was interesting, but to go from that little experiment and to wide spread conclusions about communism and its effect on humans is a bit of a stretch. I'll give you that... 😆
But I find these small, quirky psychological experiments very interesting. Like this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
Yeah, that is pretty interesting.
You rationality fetishists and your psychology and bias obsession. You need to get a bit of dialectics up in your epistemology.
Check this out by the way
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
Kel Varnsen wrote: I admit I posted it just for a bit of fun. The study was interesting, but to go from that little experiment and to wide spread conclusions about communism and its effect on humans is a bit of a stretch. I'll give you that... 😆 But I find these small, quirky psychological experiments very interesting. Like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimatum_game
Well people aren't stupid and they are very adaptable, no matter where you live in the world or under what regime people will do what they have to to survive. I'll grant you that under repressive systems there were very good reasons for keeping your mouth shut or telling people what they wanted to hear.
The New Yorker has opened up its archives for the summer, with a great collection available.
http://www.theawl.com/2014/07/all-the-new-yorker-story-roundups-you-should-read-while-the-stories-are-still-unlocked-as-well-as-all-the-new-yorker-stories-they-link-to
Cheers Bravosi, it'll take a while to work through those.
Klaus wrote: How Harvard and CIA Helped Creating The UNA Bomber: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/06/chase.htm This is pretty amazing.
How Harvard and CIA Helped Creating The UNA Bomber: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2000/06/chase.htm
This is pretty amazing.
That was amazing! The fact that i could relate to so much what the author says makes me a bit sad.
Excellent article. Took a while to read all 4 parts, but it was well worth it.
FEBravo wrote: The New Yorker has opened up its archives for the summer, with a great collection available. http://www.theawl.com/2014/07/all-the-new-yorker-story-roundups-you-should-read-while-the-stories-are-still-unlocked-as-well-as-all-the-new-yorker-stories-they-link-to
Thanks for the tip!
I can vouch for Trial By Fire (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07/trial-by-fire?currentPage=all) and The Man Who Walks on Air (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1999/04/05/the-man-who-walks-on-air) on that list. The latter is an article about the French performance artist Philippe Petit, who wrote a wonderful book called To Reach The Clouds chronicling his attempt to walk on a wire between the World Trade Center towers. It was turned into a beautiful documentary called Man on Wire a few years ago.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/conversion-via-twitter-westboro-baptist-church-megan-phelps-roper
I found this really interesting and uplifting.
Thanks for that, Qs. Interesting indeed.
You just clicked on this thread because you misread it as "Interesting Testicles" didn't you Rex.....
No
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/07/oldest-homo-sapiens-bones-ever-found-shake-foundations-of-the-human-story?CMP=share_btn_tw
this is incredible.