1. “ you can’t tell thousands people that they might be dying soon and see what they do as a response”-only because you haven’t tried!
Sincerely
Phil Zimbardo
2. Lulz at the N differential between DC and everywhere else; genuinely in awe of a world where mail surveys get a >70% return rate. Fed workers had plenty of time to answer mail, I guess (as opposed to answer door knockers). Also deeply intrigued by the Chicagoans who knew a) it was an air raid signal and b) were excited. “At least we’re going out on top!”
3. Veteran status isn’t identified in the study or not, but given the time frame (there are age cohorts then where 70% of men would have been veterans), you can kind of make some guesses as to how it might have impacted things (compare page 22 for how many people left their office at the VA vs the Weather Bureau)
4. Re: your footnote Nr 4. Having read a lot of Lankov and Myers (and currently reading Henrich’s book about WEIRD thinking) and experience dealing with the issues of Monster’s Island, I have found that the fact that we are uniquely poorly informed about North Korean leadership (even who they are, much less what they think) such that there’s a major gap in our ability to understand how they thinking which end up just filling in by doing the very WEIRD thing of universalizing and assuming they are going to think just like us. Whereas (again ,from Lankov and Myers) one thing I took to heart was the that leadership of the DPRK definitely *does not think like WEIRD people* and in might in fact be the polar opposite. That’s not to say they are irrational, just that they have a very different thought process at work than what we are used to.
A few thoughts.
1. “ you can’t tell thousands people that they might be dying soon and see what they do as a response”-only because you haven’t tried!
Sincerely
Phil Zimbardo
2. Lulz at the N differential between DC and everywhere else; genuinely in awe of a world where mail surveys get a >70% return rate. Fed workers had plenty of time to answer mail, I guess (as opposed to answer door knockers). Also deeply intrigued by the Chicagoans who knew a) it was an air raid signal and b) were excited. “At least we’re going out on top!”
3. Veteran status isn’t identified in the study or not, but given the time frame (there are age cohorts then where 70% of men would have been veterans), you can kind of make some guesses as to how it might have impacted things (compare page 22 for how many people left their office at the VA vs the Weather Bureau)
4. Re: your footnote Nr 4. Having read a lot of Lankov and Myers (and currently reading Henrich’s book about WEIRD thinking) and experience dealing with the issues of Monster’s Island, I have found that the fact that we are uniquely poorly informed about North Korean leadership (even who they are, much less what they think) such that there’s a major gap in our ability to understand how they thinking which end up just filling in by doing the very WEIRD thing of universalizing and assuming they are going to think just like us. Whereas (again ,from Lankov and Myers) one thing I took to heart was the that leadership of the DPRK definitely *does not think like WEIRD people* and in might in fact be the polar opposite. That’s not to say they are irrational, just that they have a very different thought process at work than what we are used to.