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- Author: Jonathan Haidt
- Page Length: 530 pages
- Drawing on his twenty-five years of groundbreaking research on moral psychology, Jonathan Haidt shows how moral judgments arise not from reason but from gut feelings. He shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have such different intuitions about right and wrong, and he shows why each side is actually right about many of its central concerns.
- In this subtle yet accessible book, Haidt gives you the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the curse of our eternal divisions and conflicts. If you're ready to trade in anger for understanding, read The Righteous Mind.
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But I found his data rigorously researched, and his presentation of that data to be fair (again, as distinct from many of his conclusions). So what's your justification for the word "fraud"? Can you provide counter sources? Can you point to valid data that contradicts what he provides? Just because he has some opinions that might align with right-wing crackpots does not make him a fraud. Fwiw, I am an extremely progressive liberal.
but you can quickly go into logics where you justify your perspective and demean others, such as racial IQ stuff Haidt believes in. And some of his statistics he uses in the last two books such as phones are bad, are real stats but taken out of context where one can do the who lies, damned lies, and statistics stuff.
Likewise I can critique this book to death from an anthropology and comparative culture study for it does not translate his 5 moral sentiment framework in all cultures. We have the 2000s WEIRD replication crisis (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic aka getting 20 year old college students to take surveys for free for homework does not translate well to the real world.)
There is some there there, but making it into a fetish instead of recognizing humans are fluid and in flux is taking the wrong lesson one can from this book. And I think Haidt has done that for it pays well and his own 50 year old anxieties.
But I found his data rigorously researched, and his presentation of that data to be fair (again, as distinct from many of his conclusions). So what's your justification for the word "fraud"? Can you provide counter sources? Can you point to valid data that contradicts what he provides? Just because he has some opinions that might align with right-wing crackpots does not make him a fraud. Fwiw, I am an extremely progressive liberal.
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