Reply #141: I think you're kind of comparing apples to oranges.

[SkyIsGrey]

Granted that in the past study similar to this were used to oppress people that were considered inferior. The difference in this test is they are only using people with different outlooks on life, one liberal one conservative, not based on race and/or gender. I resonded above to a post about this that alluded to, having not read the article first, DNA which is never mentioned in that article. But I did respond to that post saying that the difference between somebody's outlook on life say the difference between perceived liberal and conservative as that study was looking at was based more on upbringing rather than genetics. Even if genetics could figure into this somehow, again not based on race or gender, this study is based on a person's perspective in life not the brain they were born with, which, even if somebody was born with the type of genetic brain anomaly as an either down syndrome or autism, would be strongly influenced by how they were raised.


And where I think it's going to get us, that will have a better understanding of how people perceive the world. Not saying that we have to round these people up and put them into reeducation camps. But having a better understanding of how people can perceive the same thing in such an extremely different way, as with the war in Iraq, we might have a better way of understanding how to deal with somebody that appears to be completely ignorant of everything that the perceive. In the post above I alluded to it being sort of like never growing up, like a child would perceive the world, where everything that they are comfortable with is fiercely defended and anything that makes them uncomfortable is fiercely attacked, kind of like with the same knee-jerk response to the key inputs, everything is either black or white, they neither cannot hesitate nor anticipate, no gray areas.