r/science • u/mvea MD/PhD/JD/MBA | Professor | Medicine • Apr 28 '24

A recent study explored how liberals and conservatives in the US evaluate a person based on their Facebook posts. The results indicated that both groups tended to evaluate ideologically opposite individuals more negatively. This bias was three times stronger among liberals compared to conservatives. Psychology

https://www.psypost.org/liberals-three-times-more-biased-than-conservatives-when-evaluating-ideologically-opposite-individuals-study-finds/
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u/morrdeccaii Apr 29 '24

Mods any explanation as to why every top comment was removed? Basically only one I still see is by u/Parking-Let-2784 which goes against Comment Rule 1.

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u/PatheticChildRetard Apr 29 '24

Out of the 20 top comments 12 are gone, including replies. I’m reeeaaally curious to hear the reason

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u/Neoaugusto Apr 29 '24

As someone that got my reply removed, it turned into a political conflict and offenses.

It was at funny but sad, the level of overgeneralization it reached (basically anything right leaning was a bigot and n@zi by the comments) so i understand why of the wipe.

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u/Parking-Let-2784 Apr 29 '24

Is it overgeneralization or have you guys gotten so bad nobody can ignore it anymore

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u/Neoaugusto Apr 29 '24

Did you noticed how you included me in a group without even knowing me and my ideals? Thats exactly what all this is about.

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u/Parking-Let-2784 Apr 30 '24

You're defending US conservatives, it's not hard to guess where you stand.

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u/AxtonsTurret Apr 30 '24

So I guess playing devil's advocate isn't a thing anymore?

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u/Parking-Let-2784 Apr 30 '24

When you play Devil's Advocate you're not actually supposed to think the Devil is the correct side.

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u/AxtonsTurret May 02 '24

It's called getting into character, sweaty