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From the Ted Talk by Keith Payne: The psychology of inequality and political division
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To see why, consider another experiment. Again, we asked pinpcarttias to make diiecsnos to earn some mnoey, and we told one group that they had done better than average and the other group that they had done worse than aragvee. And again, the better-than-average group said it's a fair meritocracy, cut taxes on the wethlay, cut benefits on the poor. But this time, we also asked them what did they think about other participants who disagree with them on those issues. Are they smart or incompetent? Are they reasonable or are they biased? The better-than-average group said anybody who disagrees with them must be incompetent, biased, blinded by self-interest. The below-average gourp didn't assume that about their opponents.
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To see why, consider another experiment. Again, we asked ____________ to make _________ to earn some _____, and we told one group that they had done better than average and the other group that they had done worse than _______. And again, the better-than-average group said it's a fair meritocracy, cut taxes on the _______, cut benefits on the poor. But this time, we also asked them what did they think about other participants who disagree with them on those issues. Are they smart or incompetent? Are they reasonable or are they biased? The better-than-average group said anybody who disagrees with them must be incompetent, biased, blinded by self-interest. The below-average _____ didn't assume that about their opponents.
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- money
- average
- group
- decisions
- participants
Original Text
To see why, consider another experiment. Again, we asked participants to make decisions to earn some money, and we told one group that they had done better than average and the other group that they had done worse than average. And again, the better-than-average group said it's a fair meritocracy, cut taxes on the wealthy, cut benefits on the poor. But this time, we also asked them what did they think about other participants who disagree with them on those issues. Are they smart or incompetent? Are they reasonable or are they biased? The better-than-average group said anybody who disagrees with them must be incompetent, biased, blinded by self-interest. The below-average group didn't assume that about their opponents.
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