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In reply to the discussion: No One is Talking About Taking Your Guns. And Why, Exactly, is That? [View all]friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)11. "Some days I wish DU would turn off commenting." That says much about you, little of it flattering.
http://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/biases/13_J_Experimental_Social_Psychology_279_%28Ross%29.pdf
You seem confused about how discussion groups actually work; if you wish to never hear
a discouraging word or dissent, I'd suggest confining your posts to either a) the group you host
or b) whatever forum Michael Bloomberg happens to be funding at the moment.
If you expect political success by way of studiously ignoring that which you do not want
to hear, yours is a fools' errand...
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
The “False Consensus Effect”: An Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes
LEE ROSS, DAVID GREENE, AND PAMELA HOUSE
Stanford University
Received April 21, 1976
Evidence from four studies demonstrates that social observers tend to perceive
a “false consensus” with respect to the relative commonness of their own responses.
A related bias was shown to exist in the observers’ social inferences.
Thus, raters estimated particular responses to be relatively common and relatively
unrevealing concerning the actors’ distinguishing personal dispositions when the
responses in question were similar to the raters’ own responses; responses differing
from those of the rater, by contrast, were perceived to be relatively uncommon
and revealing of the actor. These results were obtained both in questionnaire studies
presenting subjects with hypothetical situations and choices and in authentic conflict
situations. The implications of these findings for our understanding of social perception
phenomena and for our analysis of the divergent perceptions of actors and observers
are discussed. Finally, cognitive and perceptual mechanisms are proposed which might
account for distortions in perceived consensus and for corresponding biases in social
inference and attributional processes.
The “False Consensus Effect”: An Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes
LEE ROSS, DAVID GREENE, AND PAMELA HOUSE
Stanford University
Received April 21, 1976
Evidence from four studies demonstrates that social observers tend to perceive
a “false consensus” with respect to the relative commonness of their own responses.
A related bias was shown to exist in the observers’ social inferences.
Thus, raters estimated particular responses to be relatively common and relatively
unrevealing concerning the actors’ distinguishing personal dispositions when the
responses in question were similar to the raters’ own responses; responses differing
from those of the rater, by contrast, were perceived to be relatively uncommon
and revealing of the actor. These results were obtained both in questionnaire studies
presenting subjects with hypothetical situations and choices and in authentic conflict
situations. The implications of these findings for our understanding of social perception
phenomena and for our analysis of the divergent perceptions of actors and observers
are discussed. Finally, cognitive and perceptual mechanisms are proposed which might
account for distortions in perceived consensus and for corresponding biases in social
inference and attributional processes.
You seem confused about how discussion groups actually work; if you wish to never hear
a discouraging word or dissent, I'd suggest confining your posts to either a) the group you host
or b) whatever forum Michael Bloomberg happens to be funding at the moment.
If you expect political success by way of studiously ignoring that which you do not want
to hear, yours is a fools' errand...
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No One is Talking About Taking Your Guns. And Why, Exactly, is That? [View all]
SecularMotion
Nov 2015
OP
This stuff covers so much it confuses me - they like the "common-sense" route Australia took
jmg257
Nov 2015
#2
*All* guns are dangerous when misused, Glocks included. "Glock leg" is the result of misuse
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2015
#24
The site at the OP's link turned off commenting. Typical controller behavior
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2015
#9
"Some days I wish DU would turn off commenting." That says much about you, little of it flattering.
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2015
#11