Commenters question UK-specific framing and sourcing of the study
2 Sep 18 8:31 PM · 5d ago · 2 posts · 1 comment · 2 sources · development 2 of 2
As the article spread across Reddit and Mastodon, commenters raised concerns about how 'right-leaning' is defined in a British context versus internationally, and asked for the underlying academic study rather than a secondary write-up.
“Given that this is a British study, you've gotta realise that your democrats also fall into the side that the British define as right-leaning. What that does to the results on an international scale idk”
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No, I am specifically referring to how we evolved as a species to have the male role be the physically dominant protector. Men are stronger, faster, and more equipped, on balance, to commit acts of violence. 100,000 years ago, that made a lot of sense. It doesn't make sense anymore. That's all I really meant. We are the victims of our own…
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Meh, nobody evolved to be informed or think critically about anything happening more than about 5 miles away. And even that was probably a lot of embellished stories about mammoths three times the size of a normal one and ten times as aggressive and that's why you only brought home rabbits for dinner, again.
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Given that this is a British study, you've gotta realise that your democrats also fall into the side that the British define as right-leaning. What that does to the results on an international scale idk
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