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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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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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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a longitudinal study of whether being in a control group affects people's self-perception? heck yeah, beats workin'
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