>this is a phenomenon that’s entirely relegated to the Anglosphere.
You sure it's not just high IQ countries in general? There's evidence that parenthood almost entirely accounts for the relationship between age and conservatism; experimentally inducing a parental mindset also boosts conservative thinking:
I interpret this as more support for notions of conservatism as 'instinctual thinking' explaining things like political gaps in traits like racism and IQ.
Here's another study exploiting timing differences in the rollout of broadband, this time with the british housing panel study, and this time more of a focus on various 'social capital' measures:
There's also some evidence of network effects, where banning individual teenagers from social media use doesn't produce expected positive effects since everyone else is still online:
May soon also be possible to see if China's new policies have any success given that they're gonna be a nation-wide thing. Tho prob not worth limiting the productivity of the talented male minority.
>this is a phenomenon that’s entirely relegated to the Anglosphere.
You sure it's not just high IQ countries in general? There's evidence that parenthood almost entirely accounts for the relationship between age and conservatism; experimentally inducing a parental mindset also boosts conservative thinking:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.0978
I interpret this as more support for notions of conservatism as 'instinctual thinking' explaining things like political gaps in traits like racism and IQ.
Here's another study exploiting timing differences in the rollout of broadband, this time with the british housing panel study, and this time more of a focus on various 'social capital' measures:
http://repec.econ.muni.cz/mub/wpaper/working%20papers/WP201801MUNIeconPAPER.pdf
There's also some evidence of network effects, where banning individual teenagers from social media use doesn't produce expected positive effects since everyone else is still online:
https://twitter.com/Chris_Said/status/1498279379083870211
May soon also be possible to see if China's new policies have any success given that they're gonna be a nation-wide thing. Tho prob not worth limiting the productivity of the talented male minority.