this means that rational and accurate self-perception, as matters stand with our world-sized pool of fish making everybody small. is a suicide pact. this is the source of a truth we all recognize: in modern society, to be sane is fucking nuts
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our survival drive never goes away either, though, so we're continually working out dozens of ways to cope with this. if you run into people on the lowest rungs of society in your day-to-day, you mostly run into ones who are obviously deeply crazy
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Note: the causation could plausibly flow the other direction.
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true, and i'm sure it sometimes does, but that's the direction it's generally presumed to flow so, as a basic bitch contrarian, my priors discount this as a primary explanation
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We could solve this with Science. Make the experimental group think they’re lower status, see if they go crazy.
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Apparently this is Unethical so I will be doing the opposite: make the experimental group think they’re high-status and see if they stop being crazy. No one could possibly complain about this, right?
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as long as you have an IRB that's extremely bad at being an IRB and never thinks to ask "what happens when the experiment is over and the interventions that were elevating the subjects' status self-perception are removed"
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You think there could be a rebound effect? Maybe. Can we first examine whether a rebound effect exists with non-charged self-perception?
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a longitudinal study of whether being in a control group affects people's self-perception? heck yeah, beats workin'
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No, a study of whether someone’s self-perception of an uncharged variable rebounds after first deluding them about it then making the delusion apparent. Something like “Asch, except we explain the study then run it again and see if they get it wrong in the other direction”.
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