SIO344: Is There More Perceived Consensus on the Right or the Left?
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Another very fascinating science thingy, in the realm of politics. This one is about how the right and the left perceive political consensus among their ranks and among the other side. It always feels harder to organize on the left... but should it?
Links: Stern et al. (2014) Ditto Heads: Do Conservatives Perceive Greater Consensus Within Their Ranks Than Liberals?, Ondish & Stern (2018) Liberals Possess More National Consensus on Political Attitudes in the US: An Examination Across 40 Years
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Series Inquiry's Only. This is episode 344, I'm Thomas and Lindsey |
| 0:17.8 | just made a noise. What's going on, Lindsey? Did something malfunction? |
| 0:22.4 | Nope, nothing malfunctioned. Carry on. |
| 0:24.6 | I heard it. You all heard the noise, right? You heard it? We'll see. |
| 0:29.7 | How's it going? Are you looking for social validation of your perception of reality? |
| 0:33.7 | Maybe. Wow, what a great expert tie-in. |
| 0:37.2 | Is that anything to do with any science thingies you may have run across lately? |
| 0:42.0 | It's entirely possible. I'll tell you all about the science thingy. |
| 0:45.6 | But first, I have a question for you. |
| 0:47.8 | Does the term ditto heads bring back any fond childhood memories for you? |
| 0:52.9 | Oh, fond? Not exactly, but I will tell you that fucking song would. |
| 0:57.8 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:58.8 | And he took that from Chrissy Haind and the pretenders or whatever. |
| 1:02.6 | It's like an actual good song, or at least it's a great bass line, you know? |
| 1:06.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:06.8 | And that would bring back visceral memories of like summer days of like doing yard work |
| 1:13.2 | and my dad just having the radio on, you know? |
| 1:16.4 | And me just like not having any clue what anything was because I was a kid. |
| 1:21.4 | So your parents did listen to Rush? Oh, God, yeah. |
| 1:24.0 | So did mine. So did mine. Race on Rush. |
| 1:25.9 | Until Fox News came along and then there was less need for it. |
| 1:28.8 | My mom, I think still maybe did. |
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