The fact that more women than men believe in things I consider 'bottom tier' beliefs - like astrology, crystals, etc. - are confusing, because women have basically the same average scores on IQ tests, right?
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There’s a huge difference between men and women d>2 on “sensitivity” “Sensitivity differentiates people who are sensitive, aesthetic, sentimental, intuitive, and tender-minded from those who are utilitarian, objective, unsentimental, and tough-minded”
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This makes sense - but does this imply sensitive people are more likely to hold inaccurate beliefs? Or do insensitive people also hold inaccurate beliefs, they just are beliefs I haven't thought to ask about?
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My hunch is sensitive people are calibrated to notice & feel more things-Sometimes what they notice/feel and take as evidence isn’t real. I think “insensitives” erroneous beliefs would be due to not noticing or feeling things- less likely to lead to belief one could scrutinize
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Is this sort of like - sensitives 'overbelieve' and insensitives 'underbelieve'? I don't know how I would measure underbelief. Is underbelief the same as skepticism?
Basically, the more emotional you are, the more prone you are to biases of the emotional type. That's the gist of it, as far as I can understand.
it seems like paranoia (over-conjecture), which could be the result of high "interest in people"
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Underbelief: if I haven't seen it, it doesn't exist. It's more "atheistic" than the "agnostic-ness" of skepticism
Many men's answer to "does God exist?" is "don't know, don't care." Being disinterested in such an important question seems like an example of irrational underbelief.
I'm pulling this it of my ass, but I think it's probably more of a predisposition to "intuitive knowledge" as opposed to "material knowledge". Astrology has merits in that it's a tradition older than science, it contains narrative, taps into the pagan/unconscious/feeling side.