"Your numbers below may provide some justification for a (slightly) increased
performance for those who consider a larger space of possibilities."
You might think the effect would be less, adjusting for population by
respective state, but actually the reverse is true:
Clinton meanPerCapita2015
0 50.08945
1 65.10534
(units: billions of dollars / millions of people)
"But there are confounding factors that can't all be chalked up to that core
ability/preference. For example, we could argue (as Haidt does) that we're all
parochial, but some of us (simply) stumble into or are born into different
influences. E.g. someone born near a large city with cheap flights overseas
will be much more likely to travel widely. So, they're still parochial, just
with a different set of impinging influence. The same could be said of people
born in a place like Wyoming. We could say that none of us _are_ parochial in
any sense; we just seem that way because of our history/ontogeny."
I am not convinced for two reasons:
1) I grew up in the country and only traveled because my parents felt it was
important. I saw the major eastern cities of the United States and some in
Europe before I was an adult. Most of my childhood friends did not have had
this experience.
2) If people have the ability to follow @realDonaldTrump (i.e. they have access
to the Internet), they have the means to follow other things too, and
geographic isolation is less relevant than it once was.
I selected the word `parochial' because Haidt did, and to play along with that
point of view. I would have chosen a word like `reactionary'. Even Bannon
seems to know that his ilk can't use economics to justify their BS. (Note how
he pivots to terms like "Civic Society".)
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/11/steve-bannon-racist-comments-silicon-valley-inaccurate
I understand that social scientists need to step back, even to biochemistry
sometimes, to model things. I'm not coming at this from that perspective.
I'm coming at this as a member of the accused set of `elites' that the mighty
whitelash mob complains about. So, to deal directly and fairly, mind-to-mind,
what basis do we have to negotiate? Money and productivity, for starters..
Marcus
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