{"id":40448,"date":"2011-05-07T21:41:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T05:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=11552"},"modified":"2011-05-07T21:41:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T05:41:55","slug":"the-slow-decline-of-trust-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/07\/the-slow-decline-of-trust-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The slow decline of trust over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/05\/the-end-of-trust\/\">made an admission of my lack of trust<\/a> after the 2008 financial crisis. I should have been more precise and clarified that my collapse in trust has been particularly aimed at elites and &#8220;experts.&#8221; In any case, I realized that the <a href=\"http:\/\/sda.berkeley.edu\/cgi-bin\/hsda?harcsda+gss10\">General Social Survey<\/a> has 2010 results available. This means that <strong>I could check any changes in public trust and confidence from 2008 to 2010!<\/strong> Below in the set of charts there is one that assesses trust in banks and financial institutions. The direction of change validates my specific implication. <strong>But it seems that my intuition was wrong in that American society had slouched toward more general distrust.<\/strong> This makes me less pessimistic about the direction of our culture and the future rationally (I can&#8217;t say that my visceral <i>emotional<\/i> cynicism has been abolished).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/05\/trust1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11553\" title=\"trust1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/05\/trust1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see there wasn&#8217;t much change between 2008 and 2010. For the broad question of &#8220;can you trust people&#8221; I also decided to break it down by political ideology, education, and intelligence in two year rages, 1972-1991 and 1992-2010. There are noticeable differences in intelligence and education (less intelligent and less &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/i-WITdeuFXs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I made an admission of my lack of trust after the 2008 financial crisis. I should have been more precise and clarified that my collapse in trust has been particularly aimed at elites and &#8220;experts.&#8221; In any case, I realized that the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,281,193,451,56,1319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","category-data-analysis","category-finance","category-general-social-survey","category-gss","category-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40448"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40609,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40448\/revisions\/40609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}