PHIL 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Social Dominance Orientation, Astrological Sign, Confirmation Bias
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Phil 10 lecture 15 chapter 6. Assumption that a situation is zero-sum when it is not. Zero-sum: increase in a resource provided to one person/group must be accompanied by equal decrease in resource provided another person/group. Study: examining grades: curved grades are zero-sum, not curved, there are an unlimited amount of good grades. Not zero-sum: clearly explained it wasn"t curved. But, people made it a zero-sum situations in predictions. Study: game: choosing to maximize group differences. Wanted 16 v 8 instead of 18 v 12, even though either situation would lead to them winning. Real world: immigration policy: jobs are thought of as zero-sum. Immigrants take jobs that other people can get. They are zero-sum in the short term. But, in the large term, the population grows and more jobs pop up. In the large term, the person hired is able to spend more money with paycheck, and this creates more jobs by increasing demand.
