If the majority has some pattern of behavior, that isn’t necessarily even a risk factor for a given person getting sucked into that pattern of behavior. So I’m objecting to the framing (emanating through use of the word “we”) suggesting that a property of behavior of some group has significant ability to affect individuals who are aware of that property, bypassing their judgement about endorsement of that property.
Indeed! I meant “we” as a reference to the collective group of which we are all members of, without requiring that every individual in the group (i.e. you or I) share in every aspect of the general behavior of the group.
To be sure, I would characterize this as a risk factor even if you (or I) will not personally fall prey to this ourselves, in the same way that it’s a risk factor if the IQ of the median human drops by 10 points, which this effectively might be equivalent to (net-of-distractions).
If the majority has some pattern of behavior, that isn’t necessarily even a risk factor for a given person getting sucked into that pattern of behavior. So I’m objecting to the framing (emanating through use of the word “we”) suggesting that a property of behavior of some group has significant ability to affect individuals who are aware of that property, bypassing their judgement about endorsement of that property.
Indeed! I meant “we” as a reference to the collective group of which we are all members of, without requiring that every individual in the group (i.e. you or I) share in every aspect of the general behavior of the group.
To be sure, I would characterize this as a risk factor even if you (or I) will not personally fall prey to this ourselves, in the same way that it’s a risk factor if the IQ of the median human drops by 10 points, which this effectively might be equivalent to (net-of-distractions).