{"id":74199,"date":"2012-10-01T23:12:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=18544"},"modified":"2012-10-01T23:12:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T07:12:08","slug":"knowledge-not-opinion-information-extraction-not-persuasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/01\/knowledge-not-opinion-information-extraction-not-persuasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge, not opinion, information extraction, not persuasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/10\/deathsignal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18545\" title=\"deathsignal\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/10\/deathsignal-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a>A few days ago I was having drinks with some friends, and it came up that some of them had only recently become conscious of the fact that I leaned more toward the Republican party than the Democratic (I had remarked that my wife preferred that I keep my sideburns, as otherwise I would look too much like a Republican&#8230;though I sort of was one!). More shockingly for them was that I did not consider myself a liberal. I was somewhat bemused by the whole situation because it isn&#8217;t as if I&#8217;m particularly shy about expressing my various politically-incorrect opinions on any specific topic at work or play (these are people who I have met within the past ~2 years).<\/p>\n<p>I assume that the problem here is that I violated a cognitive <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schema_(psychology)\">schema<\/a>: <strong>liberal people are smarter than conservative people.<\/strong> Since I was conservative, they were, logically, smarter than me. The reality is probably not so convenient for the theory in this case, generating some dissonance. In the course of conversation I expressed frankly what I actually do hold to be a rough &amp; ready approximation of my attitude toward &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/Fe19KbDINU4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I was having drinks with some friends, and it came up that some of them had only recently become conscious of the fact that I leaned more toward the Republican party than the Democratic (I had remarked that my wife preferred that I keep &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74199","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=74199"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74348,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74199\/revisions\/74348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}