Lovely! That's a kind of data obfuscation and "accidental" words reversal in conclusions, to be expected - if the authors themselves are psychotics!
This procedure was uncovered and reported by students (Steven G. Ludeke and Stig H. R. Rasmussen) for a number of publications. Which then lead to a forced retraction and erratum published by the authors. This article on Retraction Watch website describes what happened:
Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
Conservative political beliefs not linked to psychotic traits, as study claimed
(thanks Drew Maharaj!)
Quote:
Researchers have fixed a number of papers after mistakenly reporting that people who hold conservative political beliefs are more likely to exhibit traits associated with psychoticism, such as authoritarianism and tough-mindedness.
As one of the notices specifies, now it appears that liberal political beliefs are linked with psychoticism. That paper also swapped ideologies when reporting on people higher in neuroticism and social desirability (falsely claiming that you have socially desirable qualities); the original paper said those traits are linked with liberal beliefs, but they are more common among people with conservative values.
I would like to point out a theory (originally proposed by Stan P. aka "Dozent") and some of my articles linking collectivism with the atavistic fall-back to a hierarchical primate heard society, see here.
and here
Specifically:
Lack of social skills made us human
Scientists find liberal gene
and
Human regression, anthropology
Quote:
| "Nomadic" (Homo Sapiens) | "Boomers" (Simian Sapiens) |
|---|---|
| outwardly - individualists, inwardly - co-operative | outwardly - collectivists, inwardly - aggressive and competitive |
| introvert | extrovert |
| disobedient | followers |
| adaptive, flexible | static, rigid |
| racially blind | intolerant of strangers |
| value creativity | afraid of new |
| dislike static order | value stability |
| rely on individual work | work unconnected to wealth |
| authorities = problems | authorities = source of wealth |
| strong team bonds | strong social group bonds |
| manipulate environment | manipulate people |
| technical and science skills | lack of technical abilities |
| logic and math | verbal reasoning and rhetorics |
| observe what works | observe what others say |
| individual survival priority | group has priority |
| idealizes religions | uses religions |
| support commerce | consider it unfair profiteering |
| nomadic mentality | settled mentality |
| highly focused on 1 task | multitasker |
| "What I produce belongs to me" | "What you produce belongs to us" |
Last but not least, I recommend Susan Cain's book "Quiet..." on introvertism: where she describes some characters of people that would traditionally be associated with individualism (as opposed to collectivism). See also this.
Heretic
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I was reading your bio and it said,"...human -to-primate social regression (link) emerging in the collectivistic cultures..."
You really, really ought to look at this guys blog. Some of it may not be to your taste but I promise you in some of his post is world class pondering on the state of the world and society.
https://colonyofcommodus.wordpress.com/
he has an older blog that has a lot of good articles. For some reason it's not coming up for me right now. it's linked at his site above.
http://hereticsway.gluontheferengi.com/
And just for giggles. I saw that in a comment you said that institutions such as health and science after a hundred or two hundred years become corrupted so bad they can not be reformed. I have a theory about that. I believe that this is the case for Empires also. My guess is that it's related to the takeover of these institutions by psychopaths. Once a institution or government gets past it's expansion phase and becomes more bureaucratic psychopaths find it easy to move up to the top. Psychopaths not being able to run anything over time tend to destroy the whole system after a while.
I can't of course verify this except for one instance. The destruction of Athens as a Empire. Alcibiades was responsible for this. Alcibiades was almost certainly a psychopath. Some had an intense hatred for him, some great love. It was Alcibiades that pushed the great idea of attacking Syracuse on the Athenians. The failed Syracuse attack was THE downfall of Athens. The failed attack destroyed them completely. The same Alcibiades went from city to city in the ancient world. In Sparta he was more Spartan than the Spartans. Changing his chameleon skin every time he moved somewhere else and betraying everyone he came in contact with. Alcibiades killed Athens with risky schemes to glorify himself.
Story of Alcibiades
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Alcibiades*.html
What did Plutarch have to say about him.
"...He had, as they say, one power which transcended all others, and proved an implement of his chase for men: that of assimilating and adapting himself to the pursuits and lives of others, thereby assuming more violent changes than the chameleon. That animal, however, as it is said, is utterly unable to assume one colour, namely, white; but Alcibiades could associate with good and bad alike, and found naught that he could not imitate and practice. 5 In Sparta, he was all for bodily training, simplicity of life, and severity of countenance; in Ionia, for p65 luxurious ease and pleasure; in Thrace, for drinking deep; in Thessaly, for riding hard; and when he was thrown with Tissaphernes the satrap, he outdid even Persian magnificence in his pomp and lavishness. It was not that he could so easily pass entirely from one manner of man to another, nor that he actually underwent in every case a change in his real character; but when he saw that his natural manners were likely to be annoying to his associates, he was quick to assume any counterfeit exterior which might in each case be suitable for them..."
http://www.ancient.eu.com/Alcibiades/
One thing not widely known is King Agis of Sparta hated Alcibiades because Alcibiades had a child by the Kings wife.
Psychopaths of the competent type are some of the best actors ever. I think it's their nonreaction. No emotional cues from their bodies hides that they're lying. I think subconsciously that we humans rely a great deal on these subconscious body reactions to tell if people are lying and when there's none there we assume that someone is telling the truth.
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