Insightful thread from @alicemazzy.
I’d add: it’s not about “values.” Those are empty signifiers used merely to construct post hoc rationalizations.
Significant instead is the texture of personal experience: different according to social position.
https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/969304258947567622 …
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This depends partly on pre-replication-crisis results (especially situationism), but see http://humancond.org/analysis/social/attitude_behavior_gap … My take is that "attitudes" or values are adopted for social signalling rather than as basis for behavior.
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But behavior patterns such as pro-natalist early reproduction vs. college/delayed reproduction are as
@Meaningness has noted have something to do with "family values". Generally values are trotted out to support political positions, and are often quite vague. "Fairness", "family" - 15 more replies
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Strange. I interpret having values to mean that you care about things, that you make judgments about what's desirable or not in general (not just as a personal experience). Seems obvious that people do that.
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[Best expansion I’ve managed so far:]https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/969643349983375360 …
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I've generally thought of the word as being a compressed concept that decompresses into a constellation (of varying forms, depending on who/when/what/where) of social norms, survival strategies, and aesthetic judgments.
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there's a lot here of course. would love to read a write up from you on it. I don't generally think of it as not corresponding to anything in reality, but rather that the correspondence is to a nebulous meta-concept.
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hmmm why not work from a microeconomic angle? I bet we probably have some technical interpretations of value that make your point well
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