"rationality declined decades ago"

Analyzing language from millions of books, the researchers found that words associated with reasoning, such as "determine" and "conclusion," rose systematically beginning in 1850, while words related to human experience such as "feel" and "believe" declined. This pattern has reversed over the past 40 years, paralleled by a shift from a collectivistic to an individualistic focus as reflected by the ratio of singular to plural pronouns such as "I"/"we." "Interpreting this synchronous sea-change in book language remains challenging," says co-author Johan Bollen of Indiana University. "However, as we show, the nature of this reversal occurs in fiction as well as non-fiction. Moreover, we observe the same pattern of change between sentiment and rationality flag words in New York Times articles, suggesting that it is not an artifact of the book corpora we analyzed."

"Inferring the drivers of long-term patterns seen from 1850 until 1980 necessarily remains speculative," says lead author Marten Scheffer of WUR. "One possibility when it comes to the trends from 1850 to 1980 is that the rapid developments in science and technology and their socio-economic benefits drove a rise in status of the scientific approach, which gradually permeated culture, society, and its institutions ranging from the education to politics. As argued early on by Max Weber, this may have led to a process of 'disenchantment' as the role of spiritualism dwindled in modernized, bureaucratic, and secularized societies." What precisely caused the observed reversal of the long-term trend around 1980 remains perhaps even more difficult to pinpoint. However, according to the authors there could be a connection to tensions arising from changes in economic policies since the early 1980s, which may have been defended on rational arguments but the benefits of which were not equally distributed.

Read: https://phys.org/news/2022-01-rationality-declined-decades.html

ΚΟΥΡΗΤΗΣ: Ο ΟΡΘΟΛΟΓΙΣΜΟΣ ΑΡΧΙΣΕ ΝΑ ΦΘΙΝΕΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 146π.χ. ΕΠΙΤΑΧΥΝΘΗΚΕ Η ΠΤΩΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΑ ΕΠΙΚΡΑΤΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΑΠΟΚΑΛΟΥΜΕΝΩΝ ΜΟΝΟΘΕΙΣΤΚΩΝ ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΩΝ. ΕΦΤΑΣΕ ΤΟ ΑΠΟΛΥΤΟ ΕΛΑΧΙΣΤΟ (ΜΕΧΡΙ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ), ΚΑΙ ΑΡΧΙΣΕ ΝΑ ΑΝΑΚΑΜΠΤΕΙ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ 17ο ΑΙΩΝΑ ΧΩΡΙΣ ΠΟΤΕ ΝΑ ΕΠΑΝΕΛΘΕΙ ΣΤΑ ΕΠΙΠΕΔΑ ΤΟΥ 146π.χ ΑΥΤΗ Η  ΑΝΑΚΑΜΨΗ, ΕΛΗΞΕ ΤΟ ΤΕΛΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΔΕΚΑΕΤΙΑΣ ΤΟΥ '80, ΑΡΧΕΣ '90.
ΕΚΤΟΤΕ Ο ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟΣ ΔΟΓΜΑΤΙΣΜΟΣ, Η ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ ΟΡΘΟΤΗΤΑ, Η ΕΚ ΝΕΟΥ ΥΙΟΘΕΤΗΣΗ ΑΝΑΤΟΛΙΤΙΚΩΝ ΔΟΞΑΣΙΩΝ, Ο ΚΕΝΤΡΙΚΟΣ/ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΟΣ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΣ, Η ΑΥΞΗΜΕΝΗ ΑΣΤΥΝΟΜΕΥΣΗ, Ο ΠΕΡΙΟΡΙΣΜΟΣ ΤΩΝ ΑΤΟΜΙΚΩΝ ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΩΝ, Ο ΕΛΕΓΧΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΙΔΙΩΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΟΣ, Η ΑΘΛΙΑ ΠΑΙΔΕΙΑ, Η ΕΛΛΙΠΗΣ ΚΑΤΑΡΤΙΣΗ/ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ, Η ΑΝΑΜΕΙΞΗ ΤΩΝ ΦΥΛΩΝ, Η ΑΝΑΘΕΩΡΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ, Η ΔΙΑΣΤΡΕΒΛΩΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΕΝΝΟΙΩΝ, ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΟΥΝ ΑΝΑΣΦΑΛΗ ΑΤΟΜΑ ΜΕ ΠΟΛΥ ΜΕΙΩΜΕΝΕΣ ΙΚΑΝΟΤΗΤΕΣ.
ΑΥΤΑ ΤΑ ΑΤΟΜΑ ΜΠΟΡΟΥΝ ΝΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΟΝΟΝ ΛΗΠΤΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΟΧΙ ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΟΙ. ΜΠΟΡΟΥΝ ΝΑ "ΑΙΣΘΑΝΟΝΤΑΙ" (i feel) ΚΑΙ ΝΑ "ΠΙΣΤΕΥΟΥΝ" (i believe), ΑΛΛΑ ΔΕΝ ΞΕΡΟΥΝ ΠΩΣ, ΟΥΤΕ ΜΠΟΡΟΥΝ ΝΑ, ΑΝΑΛΥΣΟΥΝ, ΑΙΤΙΟΛΟΓΗΣΟΥΝ, ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΟΥΝ, ΚΑΤΑΛΗΞΟΥΝ/ΣΥΜΠΕΡΑΝΟΥΝ.
ΑΥΤΗ Η ΜΑΖΙΚΗ ΑΝΙΚΑΝΟΤΗΤΑ ΟΡΘΟΛΟΓΙΣΜΟΥ ΣΕ ΣΥΝΔΥΑΣΜΟ ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΝΤΑΧΟΥ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΑ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑΡΚΗ ΨΥΧΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΑΣΤΑΘΕΙΑ ΤΟΥΣ, ΕΞΑΣΦΑΛΙΖΕΙ ΠΩΣ ΔΕΝ ΜΠΟΡΕΙ ΝΑ ΥΠΑΡΞΕΙ... "ΚΟΙΝΟ ΚΑΛΟ ΜΕΛΛΟΝ", ΧΩΡΙΣ  ΑΝΤΙΣΤΡΟΦΗ ΤΗΣ ΥΠΑΡΧΟΥΣΑΣ ΚΑΤΑΣΤΑΣΗΣ.

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