“Is there any evidence that people with, to quote Trump, ‘severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities’ can become air-traffic controllers? There's more evidence that they just end up President of the US.” @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social - ThreadSky

sturdyalex.bsky.social • 22 days ago

“Is there any evidence that people with, to quote Trump, ‘severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities’ can become air-traffic controllers? There's more evidence that they just end up President of the US.”

@mrkennycampbell.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social

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Comments

stavvy.bsky.social•22 days ago

The right wing are generally thick, thick as cold molasses, in layman's terms.

"The findings reported in this study are in line with current literature in political psychology and provide a novel neural perspective to support the ideological asymmetry in empathy"

https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/18/1/nsad029/7175525

stavvy.bsky.social•22 days ago

"a growing collection of empirical research indicates that an individual’s propensity to experience empathy correlates with one’s general political attitudes (including party affiliation) as well as with which specific policy positions one takes"

https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5209/5209.html

stavvy.bsky.social•22 days ago

"we integrate theory & research from sociology, psychology, & pol science to develop & test a mediation model that helps to explain why political conservatism is often associated with pandemic behaviors & lifestyles that are inconsistent with public health..."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9400002/

stavvy.bsky.social•22 days ago

"The researchers found that when imagining other people suffering, liberals tended to show stronger brain reactions associated with empathy compared to conservatives. This pattern of brain activity was linked to participants’ self-reported political beliefs."

https://www.psypost.org/new-neuroscience-research-shows-liberals-experience-more-empathy-than-conservatives-when-they-imagine-others-suffering/

2021722.bsky.social•22 days ago

This is spot on!

ashbytime.bsky.social•22 days ago

At one point I explored being an air traffic controller, but as I have some colourblindness I'm intelligible. I cannot believe for a second that a country like the US would allow anyone with any limitations could take that job