1370 pts ยท November 22, 2012
One such analysis, a whole thread looking at it from different angles: https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1248823584111439872
Pew doesn't provide it, they just give the raw data and people have to analyze it themselves. They explicitly don't want to hold an opinion.
You just made that exact argument above.
and locus of control - conservatives have been shown to have a more internal one. External LoC is associated with unhappiness.
The pattern also holds for other kinds of measures along similar lines - self-reported happiness (lack of sadness isn't joy, right)
SSC readers are politically and psychologically literate and reading a blog by a psychiatrist. Same pattern.
The pattern holds in the General Social Survey, and in a poll of the readership of Slate Star Codex.
ANES:
There are many polls which find a result of that sort. Pew Research:
Appealing, but doesn't hold up because you're dealing with a tiny handful of murderers. Some murderers don't make pop mental health trends.
You'll own nothing and be happy.
A Scottish minister wants to criminalize speech in your own home that nobody else hears.
want to ban guns entirely, want to ban abortion entirely, want entirely unrestricted abortion.
When you're dealing with really extremist people, the slope can be slippery. There are people who:
How much of the thinking habits encouraged within modern leftism are along those lines? They seem the exact opposite to me.
We know that mental illness is helped by changing thinking habits eg. via Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the stoicism that inspired it.
Different poll, similar and even starker result: /a/44oeGiK
An issue with that kind of thing is that the impact is uneven even though eg. finances should affect everyone /a/gwMIiDh
These include reports of happiness, not just the lack of distress, and right-leaning people having a more internal locus of control.
The pattern of mental illness decreasing as leftism decreases holds across many samples, and there's other supporting lines of evidence.
It's actually a stable finding that leftists tend to have higher rates of mental illness than conservatives.
Women, esp. young ones, are reporting higher and higher rates of mental unwellness as society becomes MORE feminist.
"We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror." - Marx
You expect people here to think?
...Stalin killing his own military command making their military campaign a clownfiesta.
And, spoiler alert: As awful and evil as the Nazis were, the communists were worse. One of the only reasons I live in a free country is...
One such analysis, a whole thread looking at it from different angles: https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1248823584111439872
Pew doesn't provide it, they just give the raw data and people have to analyze it themselves. They explicitly don't want to hold an opinion.
You just made that exact argument above.
and locus of control - conservatives have been shown to have a more internal one. External LoC is associated with unhappiness.
The pattern also holds for other kinds of measures along similar lines - self-reported happiness (lack of sadness isn't joy, right)
SSC readers are politically and psychologically literate and reading a blog by a psychiatrist. Same pattern.
The pattern holds in the General Social Survey, and in a poll of the readership of Slate Star Codex.
ANES:
There are many polls which find a result of that sort. Pew Research:
Appealing, but doesn't hold up because you're dealing with a tiny handful of murderers. Some murderers don't make pop mental health trends.
You'll own nothing and be happy.
A Scottish minister wants to criminalize speech in your own home that nobody else hears.
want to ban guns entirely, want to ban abortion entirely, want entirely unrestricted abortion.
When you're dealing with really extremist people, the slope can be slippery. There are people who:
How much of the thinking habits encouraged within modern leftism are along those lines? They seem the exact opposite to me.
We know that mental illness is helped by changing thinking habits eg. via Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the stoicism that inspired it.
Different poll, similar and even starker result: /a/44oeGiK
An issue with that kind of thing is that the impact is uneven even though eg. finances should affect everyone /a/gwMIiDh
These include reports of happiness, not just the lack of distress, and right-leaning people having a more internal locus of control.
The pattern of mental illness decreasing as leftism decreases holds across many samples, and there's other supporting lines of evidence.
It's actually a stable finding that leftists tend to have higher rates of mental illness than conservatives.
Women, esp. young ones, are reporting higher and higher rates of mental unwellness as society becomes MORE feminist.
"We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror." - Marx
You expect people here to think?
...Stalin killing his own military command making their military campaign a clownfiesta.
And, spoiler alert: As awful and evil as the Nazis were, the communists were worse. One of the only reasons I live in a free country is...