Superegos for the digital world
From Tim Hartford’s “how to make the world add up” : a study by Dan Kahan showed that scientific literacy actually reinforce biases and tribalism BUT ‘scientific curiosity’ reduces them! The more curious we are the less tribalism influences our views, and thankfully there is no correlation between curiosity and political affiliation so that trait is present across the political spectrum.
Tim Harford in How to make the world add up : “people are not hugely worried about issues such as immigration, teenage pregnancy, crime and unemployment in their own areas – but they are profoundly anxious about these issues in the country as a whole. (…) Presumably this is because we personally experience our own localities, but rely on the news for information about the wider world.”
