Dan Kahan's blog at the Cultural Cognition Project makes some conjectures about whether experts think in similar ways to non-experts. Specifically he wonders whether experts exhibit the kinds of cultural biases already demonstrated by non-experts. Do experts use cultural cognition? My observation is that there would need to be care taken to avoid something like … Continue reading Experts and Cultural Cognition
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Do more equal societies really do better?
It took a while to find an Individualist critique of the new book promoting equality, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, but here it is. There's a nice comment in Daniel Ben-Ami's blog about a shift in Egalitarian aspirations: 'It used to be a demand for more – for realising … Continue reading Do more equal societies really do better?