First time around (with hindsight bias) I answered F, T, F?, T, T
Second time around (without hindsight bias) I answered F, T, T?, T, F
Educated people are more likely to agree with authority, because they have spent more time being conditioned to obey teachers. I generalized that they might also take orders easier in the military, and conform to the circumstances easier, despite “rough and tumbled” blue collar stereotypes.
I thought be difficult to measure, but that there would be some small but probably measurable advantage.
I couldn’t really tell. At first my guess was based on the idea that repressed people are more motivated and fight harder. When I reversed my decision, it was because I put a higher weight on the situation being similar to women in business, where men are more likely to rock the boat and ask for a higher salary or promotions than women are. In retrospect, both of these are attempts to confirm a hypothesis, rather than to disprove it.
People often favor members of their own group. Unless a majority of southern blacks dislike a majority of southern whites, rather than just being indifferent, I hypothesized that they would relate to them more easily as fellow southerners.
Initially, I presumed what I thought was the simple and obvious answer, that people would avoid stress. After that, I recalled that adrenalin, deep bonds of sharing an experience, and a sense of purpose are play a big part, and that boredom may actually be a bigger factor since soldiers wouldn’t want to abandon their countrymen.
It’s hard to describe the different sensations of the two thought processes. I think it was harder to put in as much effort when I was actively suspending my disbelief. I was just going through the motions. The second time, I was really unsure, and took a deeper look. Or maybe I would have taken a deeper look if I had reexamined it under some other pretense.
I wasn’t sure whether the recession statement was true. I believe it is, but I’m not sure it would be for a full scale depression, since if people are earning less then they won’t be able to be more thrifty, because they will always need to eat and afford the basic necessities.
First time around (with hindsight bias) I answered F, T, F?, T, T
Second time around (without hindsight bias) I answered F, T, T?, T, F
Educated people are more likely to agree with authority, because they have spent more time being conditioned to obey teachers. I generalized that they might also take orders easier in the military, and conform to the circumstances easier, despite “rough and tumbled” blue collar stereotypes.
I thought be difficult to measure, but that there would be some small but probably measurable advantage.
I couldn’t really tell. At first my guess was based on the idea that repressed people are more motivated and fight harder. When I reversed my decision, it was because I put a higher weight on the situation being similar to women in business, where men are more likely to rock the boat and ask for a higher salary or promotions than women are. In retrospect, both of these are attempts to confirm a hypothesis, rather than to disprove it.
People often favor members of their own group. Unless a majority of southern blacks dislike a majority of southern whites, rather than just being indifferent, I hypothesized that they would relate to them more easily as fellow southerners.
Initially, I presumed what I thought was the simple and obvious answer, that people would avoid stress. After that, I recalled that adrenalin, deep bonds of sharing an experience, and a sense of purpose are play a big part, and that boredom may actually be a bigger factor since soldiers wouldn’t want to abandon their countrymen.
It’s hard to describe the different sensations of the two thought processes. I think it was harder to put in as much effort when I was actively suspending my disbelief. I was just going through the motions. The second time, I was really unsure, and took a deeper look. Or maybe I would have taken a deeper look if I had reexamined it under some other pretense.
I wasn’t sure whether the recession statement was true. I believe it is, but I’m not sure it would be for a full scale depression, since if people are earning less then they won’t be able to be more thrifty, because they will always need to eat and afford the basic necessities.