This is the Dunning Kruger effect applied to political views under the assumption that smarter people's heads are full of ambiguity/uncertainty and are likely to be more centrist?
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Yes that’s the rough hypothesis. I think I had an earlier tweet a few weeks ago explicitly linking this to D-K
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That assumes the default is to start out on the fringe and move to the center. I don’t think that’s true, or that most people are that empiricist. The alts move out, the norms don’t move in.
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The corollary is that one's absence of strong views generally leads to one being classified as a centrist.
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Def true sometimes. But the thoughtless confidence in status quo sometimes can be very intense too. Even stiflingly so.
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@KennethFolk This is an interesting idea, but fringe views are not necessarily incorrect or any easier to swallow whole. I do think that more fringe views are more likely to land you in an echo chamber, though. -
Echo chambers might sound more intense, but massive canyons still echo, too.
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Idk, Whig history certainly isn't tolerant of uncertainty, but seems to be an underlying assumption of most of the centre.
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On pe could argue that faith in the status quo is also a search for certainty, or, contentness in certainty. They react very badly to on-point fringe criticism.
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