he literature on training suggests books and classes are fine entertainment but largely ineffectual. But the game has very large effects. It surprised everyone.”
Situational practice seems to have a larger impact on bias recognition retention than just being preached at about it
and the representativeness heuristic (our strong desire to apply stereotypes)
Where does our desire to apply stereotypes stem? The ability to categorize and therefore "predict"?
subjects’ disinclination to believe statistical and other general evidence, basing their judgments instead on individual examples and vivid anecdotes.
Due to people's ability to visualize stories rather than numbers and statistics?
You can’t improve intuition. Perhaps, with very long-term training, lots of talk, and exposure to behavioral economics, what you can do is cue reasoning, so you can engage System 2 to follow rules. Unfortunately, the world doesn’t provide cues. And for most people, in the heat of argument the rules go out the window.
Intuition and instinct may not be changeable, but isn't any reaction to other external events programmed through societal upbringing? Wouldn't "second-thought" programming be applicable? Even if a gut instinct is wrong, you would hope that in a well reasoned argument, you could navigate away and grow from intuition if necessary
“Our nation must seek an honorable and enduring outcome worthy of the tremendous sacrifices that have been made, especially the sacrifices of lives.
This sort of thinking is very interesting in a "blood must have blood" sort of way. The negatives of an investment must eventually come to a positive outcome, even if you are the one who created such negatives in the first place. This I feel is the basis of subsequent actions following 9/11. The U.S had knee jerk reactions which had tremendous repercussions, which now must be followed through to come out on top of a "bad investment"
populist and nationalist are not an immediate threat,
Can this still be said after the storming of the capitol building? At what point do nationalist and populist parties become a threat? During a building of xenophobic rhetoric or only after violent threats have been acted upon?
and all complain about the lockdown measures imposed by the government.
To what end? It would be interesting to take a deep dive into the community that believes governments imposed lockdown measures to further their control over the public. Where does the fear of government overreach outweigh the general want to protect others in your society
Trusted nonpartisan processes must be reinvented and re-socialized, an especially daunting task in polarized democracies such as the United States
Is it possible to reinvent and re-socialize such deeply ingrained ideas without the possibility of splitting a country? The idea of re-establishing trust in a nonpartisan process with such polarized views on every subject is hard to digest without completely reinventing the system
Disinformation flourished over scientific uncertainty regarding the virus and its treatments.
The dramatic increase in personalized technology and the easy catering to already established ideals has created a setting where if one wants to believe in something, the "facts" are there to present it. Disinformation is easily spread and just as easily bounced around echo chambers