I don’t understand one thing about the universe.
The test and the fact that this story wind “lies-told-to-children” storytelling night, seems to indicate that most children never hear those dirty-red lies. However, if that causes those children to be raised, to learn, differently than most of the planet, this only mean that the test checks whether those children are actually good, not whether the whole planet education system raises good children.
This is especially important as I can imagine and fear that seeing this discrimination for years, then having to act yourselves, has an extremely strong impact on the later behavior of the person. Hopefully a good impact, because they have lived how conformity has been able to impact them for years and how it required an external event for them to do any action helping discriminated people.
It’s hard for me to imagine that civilization can be sure the remaining of the society is as good without having them actually tested in this realistic way.
IIUC, this particular village was for testing specific genetic tendencies (Does it also have in it’s purpose to test epigenetic ones, or are those controlled for somehow?), there are presumably other villages where they use different setups to test various phases of upbringing and education on the matter, probably using twin studies to separate it form the genetic factors tested in this one.
Not just genetic tendencies; it was also meant to look at shared environment, like the TV shows subtly but thoroughly pushing a certain worldview, and the words from teachers saying it explicitly. From the story: they wanted “to find out how well we were doing environment-wise and heredity-wise on people’s kindness and resistance to conformity-pushed cruelty”.
The details of the experimental setup aren’t fully spelled out, but I think you can infer from the mention of children’s TV being censored that there’s a connected experiment going on where these children are getting different TV shows than the broader society. So this could be measuring which TV programs produce more moral children, with two groups both receiving the same discrimination-against-reds test but watching different TV shows.
I don’t understand one thing about the universe. The test and the fact that this story wind “lies-told-to-children” storytelling night, seems to indicate that most children never hear those dirty-red lies. However, if that causes those children to be raised, to learn, differently than most of the planet, this only mean that the test checks whether those children are actually good, not whether the whole planet education system raises good children. This is especially important as I can imagine and fear that seeing this discrimination for years, then having to act yourselves, has an extremely strong impact on the later behavior of the person. Hopefully a good impact, because they have lived how conformity has been able to impact them for years and how it required an external event for them to do any action helping discriminated people. It’s hard for me to imagine that civilization can be sure the remaining of the society is as good without having them actually tested in this realistic way.
IIUC, this particular village was for testing specific genetic tendencies (Does it also have in it’s purpose to test epigenetic ones, or are those controlled for somehow?), there are presumably other villages where they use different setups to test various phases of upbringing and education on the matter, probably using twin studies to separate it form the genetic factors tested in this one.
Not just genetic tendencies; it was also meant to look at shared environment, like the TV shows subtly but thoroughly pushing a certain worldview, and the words from teachers saying it explicitly. From the story: they wanted “to find out how well we were doing environment-wise and heredity-wise on people’s kindness and resistance to conformity-pushed cruelty”.
What affects epigenetics?
The details of the experimental setup aren’t fully spelled out, but I think you can infer from the mention of children’s TV being censored that there’s a connected experiment going on where these children are getting different TV shows than the broader society. So this could be measuring which TV programs produce more moral children, with two groups both receiving the same discrimination-against-reds test but watching different TV shows.