Quote of the Day | 0630
the most striking thing about any of these biases is that they are already in place long before we understand the first thing about economics or geopolitics. This was shown in a 2009 paper published in the prestigious journal Science, a paper that should be required reading just before election day each year. Show kids pairs of faces of candidates from various obscure elections. Tell them that they are about to take a long journey by boat; which of these two people would they want as their captain? And kids, ages 5 through 13, picked the winner a boggling 71% of the time.
Robert M. Sapolsky, We’re rarely rational when we vote because we’re rarely rational, period
[x]#12517 fan donderdag 30 juni 2016 @ 22:05:54
