Psychologists: This is a case where "motivated reasoning" goes opposite to what "want to be true": Liberals believe HIGHER frequency of rapehttps://twitter.com/chsommers/status/907463974270226432 …
The progressive belief in higher rape numbers is seen as instrumental in reducing rape incidence, and thus seen as desirable.
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Exactly. Which is trivers and von hippel's story. And contradicts the standard story for motivated reasoning.
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Ah! I thought that is the standard explanation since it seemed obvious
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