Finding an individual (not scientist) without some kind of questionable/extreme view is literally like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The examples, I listed are above are cases where the person was often confronted with the opportunity to abandon that belief, and they opted
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that they will discard a view merely because it is a blip. Maybe I’m wrong. It does feel like I’m dichotomising, which feels wrong.
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Oh, I don't either. I don't think I said they do, but I will emphasise that it's very tough. My point is perhaps more fine than that though.
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I literally see blip-abandonment as a left wing thing, and conservation of blips as a right wing thing. I think everybody does.
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This is why I class those who maintain their blips and indeed like you say double down on them as not actually as left wing as they think.
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I wary of pulling a No True Scotsman so I just want to underline I am dissociating between self-describing as left wing and actually holding
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left wing views. The Left and the left have within them disgusting views, ranging from TERFs to tankies. We need to clean our house.
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The only rule I hold on to tight is that people are almost never binary in their behaviour. If they were my experiments would work better.
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I don't think I claimed that at all though?
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The whole point of my subthread was about how people are very different to what people think. So kind of the opposite of simplifying to "all
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academics are this way or that way".
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to maintain it, even strengthen it. That is not how somebody behaves when it's a blip.
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While I agree with pretty much everything you’ve written, I don’t think people abandon their blips readily. Or, at least, it’s not a given
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