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Talk:Essay: RationalWiki user Andrew5, who leans somewhat politically to the right, is an irritating thorn in the side of politically left-leaning RationalWikians and he is an obsessive, officious, serial liar with bad judgment (who is also a wikiholic) (view source)
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Consider the Stroop Color–Word Test: The test is a measure of executive function that measure selective attention and cognitive flexibility. When I have taken the test, I have no problems. I speculate that political ideologues score lower on the Stroop Color-Word Test. So perhaps editing RationalWiki lowers your Stroop Color-Word Test score. I say that political ideologues score lower on the Stroop Color-Word Test, but it might be true.
Consider the Stroop Color–Word Test: The test is a measure of executive function that measure selective attention and cognitive flexibility. When I have taken the test, I have no problems. I speculate that political ideologues score lower on the Stroop Color-Word Test. So perhaps editing RationalWiki lowers your Stroop Color-Word Test score. I say that political ideologues score lower on the Stroop Color-Word Test, but it might be true.
== A look at RationalWiki's cognitive inflexibility and capricious thinking/behavior ==
1) I cite: A RationalWiki editor whose username is Christopher wrote at RationalWiki: "Technically...[User: Conservative at Conservapedia].. "shouldn’t have been banned, the vote to ban him was one short of the 2/3 majority that’s needed according to site policy."[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Chicken_coop&diff=prev&oldid=2296799]
1) I cite: A RationalWiki editor whose username is Christopher wrote at RationalWiki: "Technically...[User: Conservative at Conservapedia].. "shouldn’t have been banned, the vote to ban him was one short of the 2/3 majority that’s needed according to site policy."[https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=RationalWiki:Chicken_coop&diff=prev&oldid=2296799]
In certain cases, people who tow an ideological line act irrationally.
In certain cases, people who tow an ideological line act irrationally.
3) A person afflicted with narcissism and pride no doubt blocks people more capriciously. I saw that in light of RationalWiki editor User: AceMcWicked saying that RationalWiki is becoming more and more what LGM thinks.
Consider this information about [[atheism and narcissism]]:
The abstract for the 2017 journal article ''The perception of atheists as narcissistic'' which was originally published in the journal ''Psychology of Religion and Spirituality'' indicates:
:"Research into prejudice toward atheists has generally focused on broad characteristics. Some of these characteristics (i.e., self-centeredness, elitism, individualism, and immorality) indicate a possible prejudice of narcissism. To investigate this specific prejudice, the present study used the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (Raskin & Terry, 1988), the Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale (Hendin & Cheek, 1997), and the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (Davis, 1983), which were adjusted so that the items of each measure were changed from first-person statements to third-person statements to measure participants’ perceptions. Participants (N = 359) were given a description of a fictitious individual named Alex, portrayed to them as either male or female and atheist or religious, or male or female with no additional information (creating 6 experimental groups), and then asked to complete the measures as they thought the individual would. Participants consistently rated atheists higher on narcissism measures and lower on empathy measures, indicating a perception of greater narcissism and a lack of empathy compared with religious individuals and controls. Participants’ perceptions of Alex were affected by his or her gender in conjunction with his or her religion, and the 2 variables of gender and religion interacted to create different patterns of perception. In general, interactions indicated differences in the way religion and gender impacted the perception of individuals as narcissistic, affecting perceptions of males more than females. The results are consistent with research findings that perceptions of atheists tend to be negative and prejudicial. This study highlights the need to compare perceptions with actual personality differences between atheists and religious individuals."<ref>[https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-37955-001 The perception of atheists as narcissistic], Dubendorff, S. J., & Luchner, A. F. (2017), ''Psychology of Religion and Spirituality'', 9(4), 368-376.</ref>
[[File:Sculpture Narcissus.jpg|thumbnail|center|200px|A study found that atheists were more likely to be seen as [[Narcissism|narcissistic]] than religious believers - especially male atheists.<ref>[https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2016-37955-001 The perception of atheists as narcissistic], Dubendorff, S. J., & Luchner, A. F. (2017), ''Psychology of Religion and Spirituality'', 9(4), 368-376.</ref> See also: [[Atheism and arrogance]] ]]
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== RobS response ==
== RobS response ==