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tristeham: Jul 31, 2022

corporations funding special police departments

# ? Jan 24, 2023 09:27

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Kreeblah: May 17, 2004; INSERT QUACK TO CONTINUE; Taco Defender

The Reedy Creek Improvement District.

# ? Jan 24, 2023 09:49

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

https://twitter.com/1d34h4z4rd/status/1617491552200437761

# ? Jan 24, 2023 11:32

War and Pieces: Apr 24, 2022; DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN

Get too fat to sleep without a mask on

# ? Jan 24, 2023 14:02

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

use hooks to hang themselves from the ceiling instead of sitting in chairs

# ? Jan 24, 2023 14:06

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

they let private companies prosecute environmental lawyers

# ? Jan 24, 2023 15:06

ikanreed: Sep 25, 2009; I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Doing 9/11

# ? Jan 24, 2023 15:10

Suplex Liberace: Jan 18, 2012

ikanreed posted:

Doing 9/11

doing lots of terrorism across the world and time

# ? Jan 24, 2023 15:19

webcams for christ: Nov 2, 2005

publish maps like this over and over

# ? Jan 24, 2023 15:25

ikanreed: Sep 25, 2009; I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

webcams for christ posted:

publish maps like this over and over

When did Mongolia become honorary whites?

# ? Jan 24, 2023 15:32

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019; Can't post for 3 days!

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/1d34h4z4rd/status/1617491552200437761

lmao

# ? Jan 24, 2023 17:11

Bear Retrieval Unit: Nov 5, 2009; Mudslide Experiment

mawarannahr posted:

lmao

# ? Jan 24, 2023 17:31

Marijuana: May 8, 2011; Go lick a dog's ass til it bleeds.

envy is a deadly sin

# ? Jan 24, 2023 18:08

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019; Can't post for 3 days!

Marijuana posted:

envy is a deadly sin

envydia� the way it�s meant to be prayed

# ? Jan 24, 2023 18:11

yellowcar: Feb 14, 2010

mawarannahr posted:

lmao

# ? Jan 24, 2023 21:44

Homeless Friend: Jul 16, 2007

mawarannahr posted:

lmao

# ? Jan 24, 2023 21:44

Megamissen: Jul 19, 2022; any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

switching the name order in scanlations

# ? Jan 24, 2023 22:05

Weka: May 5, 2019; That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/1d34h4z4rd/status/1617491552200437761

These are American Bullies, fyi. The pitbull is a breed of beauty and grace.

# ? Jan 24, 2023 22:06

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019; Can't post for 3 days!

Weka posted:

These are American Bullies, fyi. The pitbull is a breed of beauty and grace.

phrenological trap sprung

# ? Jan 24, 2023 22:11

cowboy beepboop: Feb 24, 2001

wearing running shoes with suits

# ? Jan 25, 2023 05:18

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

Wearing socks with sandals

# ? Jan 25, 2023 05:22

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019; Can't post for 3 days!

gradenko_2000 posted:

Wearing socks with sandals

hosed up but probably everywhere

# ? Jan 25, 2023 05:24

CRUSTY MINGE: Mar 30, 2011; Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

# ? Jan 25, 2023 05:37

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN: Jun 26, 2009

americans score as extreme outliers compared to the rest of the world

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The test that Henrich introduced to the Machiguenga was called the ultimatum game. The rules are simple: in each game there are two players who remain anonymous to each other. The first player is given an amount of money, say $100, and told that he has to offer some of the cash, in an amount of his choosing, to the other subject. The second player can accept or refuse the split. But there�s a hitch: players know that if the recipient refuses the offer, both leave empty-handed. North Americans, who are the most common subjects for such experiments, usually offer a 50-50 split when on the giving end. When on the receiving end, they show an eagerness to punish the other player for uneven splits at their own expense. In short, Americans show the tendency to be equitable with strangers�and to punish those who are not.

Among the Machiguenga, word quickly spread of the young, square-jawed visitor from America giving away money. The stakes Henrich used in the game with the Machiguenga were not insubstantial�roughly equivalent to the few days� wages they sometimes earned from episodic work with logging or oil companies. So Henrich had no problem finding volunteers. What he had great difficulty with, however, was explaining the rules, as the game struck the Machiguenga as deeply odd.

When he began to run the game it became immediately clear that Machiguengan behavior was dramatically different from that of the average North American. To begin with, the offers from the first player were much lower. In addition, when on the receiving end of the game, the Machiguenga rarely refused even the lowest possible amount. "It just seemed ridiculous to the Machiguenga that you would reject an offer of free money," says Henrich. "They just didn�t understand why anyone would sacrifice money to punish someone who had the good luck of getting to play the other role in the game."

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One of the classics of the literature, the M�ller-Lyer illusion, showed that where you grew up would determine to what degree you would fall prey to the illusion that these two lines are different in length:

Researchers found that Americans perceive the line with the ends feathered outward (B) as being longer than the line with the arrow tips (A). San foragers of the Kalahari, on the other hand, were more likely to see the lines as they are: equal in length. Subjects from more than a dozen cultures were tested, and Americans were at the far end of the distribution�seeing the illusion more dramatically than all others.

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More recently psychologists had challenged the universality of research done in the 1950s by pioneering social psychologist Solomon Asch. Asch had discovered that test subjects were often willing to make incorrect judgments on simple perception tests to conform with group pressure. When the test was performed across 17 societies, however, it turned out that group pressure had a range of influence. Americans were again at the far end of the scale, in this case showing the least tendency to conform to group belief.

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As the three continued their work, they noticed something else that was remarkable: again and again one group of people appeared to be particularly unusual when compared to other populations�with perceptions, behaviors, and motivations that were almost always sliding down one end of the human bell curve.

In the end they titled their paper �The Weirdest People in the World?� (pdf) By �weird� they meant both unusual and Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. It is not just our Western habits and cultural preferences that are different from the rest of the world, it appears. The very way we think about ourselves and others�and even the way we perceive reality�makes us distinct from other humans on the planet, not to mention from the vast majority of our ancestors. Among Westerners, the data showed that Americans were often the most unusual, leading the researchers to conclude that �American participants are exceptional even within the unusual population of Westerners�outliers among outliers.�

Given the data, they concluded that social scientists could not possibly have picked a worse population from which to draw broad generalizations. Researchers had been doing the equivalent of studying penguins while believing that they were learning insights applicable to all birds.

# ? Jan 25, 2023 05:42

Trixie Hardcore: Jul 1, 2006; Placeholder.

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

americans score as extreme outliers compared to the rest of the world

All that nerd poo poo makes Americans sound cool as hell.

# ? Jan 25, 2023 06:41

Trixie Hardcore: Jul 1, 2006; Placeholder.

What kind of hosed up country you gotta be from to not do a 50-50 split on some experiment money? If you want to be nice sure give the other person a bigger split but trying to give somebody less than a 50-50 split? gently caress you. That money ain�t yours to begin with, that�s money to share. Hell yes I�ll leave here with zero dollars if that�s what it costs to teach you some manners.

# ? Jan 25, 2023 06:51