Tell people they’re victims and they’ll come to believe it, but they’re really just victimizing themselves. From el gato malo at boriquagato.substack.com:
what goes around comes around.
as ye sow so shall ye reap.
you get back what you put out into the world.
if everyone you meet all day is a jerk, it’s probably not “them” that’s the problem…
these longstanding axioms persist for a reason. they persist because they are true. it’s bedrock canon of behaviorism to the point where it’s built into the structures of those seeking accurate information because if you do not account for this effect, you literally have no idea what you’re measuring. all your data is junk.
when pollsters run polls, they go to great lengths to avoid allowing those asking the questions to have any preconceptions whatsoever about what the answers “should” or are likely to be. this is because even if you give a questioner a simple script and say “please read this question in a neutral tone” just giving them a hint that most people will prefer chocolate when asked “do you prefer vanilla or chocolate ice cream” will skew the results massively toward chocolate. same with vanilla. you find what you expect to find and somehow, the subtle social cues pass through to those you ask no matter how neutral you try to be (or think you are being).
this is why randomized controlled trials are done as double blind. it’s not enough to just have the patient not know if they got real drug or placebo. the doctor/researcher cannot know either because if they do, their expectations pass through to the patient and the results became whatever they expect them to be.
self reporting is a nightmare like this. it’s just how humans are. it’s wired in at some deep level.
expecting an outcome often causes it. at the very least, it makes you find it. it alters your perceptions. reality does not even matter. it’s what you expect reality to be that determines what you see.
Only honky crackas can be racist. (/s)
The hedge funder who got Gay fired said the same thing about the new religion DEI-CRT but he is a tribe member and can say such things.
This just in from Snake Plissken-I’m an azzhole.