Since research is compelling that levels of testosterone in males determine willingness to take risks, I wonder if it also affects perception of risk.
On Mar 28, 2013, at 2:39 PM, glen e. p. ropella wrote: > Victoria Hughes wrote at 03/26/2013 11:27 AM: >> 1. The discussion also references non-European, non-white-male models >> for awareness, reality, conceptual modeling, etc. > > I found this interesting: > > Is the culturally polarizing effect of science literacy on climate > change risk perceptions related to the "white male effect"? Does the > answer tell us anything about the "asymmetry thesis"?! > > http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2013/3/28/is-the-culturally-polarizing-effect-of-science-literacy-on-c.html > > "2. The "white male effect" -- the observed tendency of white males to > perceive risk to be lower -- is actually a "white male hierarch" effect. > If you look at the blue lines, you can see they are more or less at > This is consistent with prior CCP research that suggests that the > "effect" is driven by culturally motivated reasoning: white male > hierarch individualists have a cultural stake in perceiving > environmental and technological risks to be low; egalitarian > communitarians -- among whom there are no meaningful gender or race > differences--have a stake in viewing such risks to be high." > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com > A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the > support of Paul -- George Bernard Shaw > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
Merle Lefkoff wrote at 03/28/2013 01:51 PM:
> Since research is compelling that levels of testosterone in males > determine willingness to take risks, I wonder if it also affects > perception of risk. I would think so. But you'd also have to fold in the extent to which someone was narcissistic or individualist. To some extent any mechanism by which one focuses tightly on a small region will affect/limit the ability to track effects beyond that region. So, perhaps it's more a function of a thinner corpus callosum? -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them. -- Spinoza ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
In reply to this post by glen ep ropella
I'm astonished that anyone could even contemplate fitting a straight
line to those scatter plots. Alternative hypothesis...isn't it just that EWMs have a propensity to benefit from the status-quo? Saul Sent from my iPhone On 29/03/2013, at 7:39 AM, "glen e. p. ropella" <[hidden email]> wrote: > Victoria Hughes wrote at 03/26/2013 11:27 AM: >> 1. The discussion also references non-European, non-white-male models >> for awareness, reality, conceptual modeling, etc. > > I found this interesting: > > Is the culturally polarizing effect of science literacy on climate > change risk perceptions related to the "white male effect"? Does the > answer tell us anything about the "asymmetry thesis"?! > > http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2013/3/28/is-the-culturally-polarizing-effect-of-science-literacy-on-c.html > > "2. The "white male effect" -- the observed tendency of white males to > perceive risk to be lower -- is actually a "white male hierarch" effect. > If you look at the blue lines, you can see they are more or less at > This is consistent with prior CCP research that suggests that the > "effect" is driven by culturally motivated reasoning: white male > hierarch individualists have a cultural stake in perceiving > environmental and technological risks to be low; egalitarian > communitarians -- among whom there are no meaningful gender or race > differences--have a stake in viewing such risks to be high." > > -- > glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com > A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the > support of Paul -- George Bernard Shaw > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
Saul Caganoff wrote at 03/28/2013 04:05 PM:
> I'm astonished that anyone could even contemplate fitting a straight > line to those scatter plots. Yeah, but that's the problem. We pattern recognizers have no choice but to do _something_ ... anything in order to recognize a pattern. > Alternative hypothesis...isn't it just that EWMs have a propensity to > benefit from the status-quo? I don't know. I would think the EWMs would be aggressive enough to recognize that _if_ a sea change is on the horizon, they'd want to put themselves in a position to come out on top after the change. So, perhaps if we reform your alternative hypothesis to: The EWMs want to make the surveyors _think_ that they think the climate risk is low, while actually operating behind the scenes to ensure their hegemony after the effects of climate change settle out. Then I might get on board. ;-) -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. -- Jacob Hornberger ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com |
Free forum by Nabble | Edit this page |