Is Trump's Racism Driving the Word for Trump?

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A recent study in the National Academy of Sciences suggests that people are driven not by racism per se but by social dominance orientation like they want to dominate other groups. The paper was explicitly using a metric like how do you feel about trade of China to dismiss the idea that economic considerations were part of what drove the word for Trump. To look at that question as the thing that decides that seems sort of very, very odd.

Over the past decades, many social science studies have promised simple answers to complex problems. In his latest book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills, Singal describes how many of these solutions fail because the findings they are based on turn out to be wrong or misleading.

In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jesse Singal sit down to discuss the reproducibility crisis in social science, whether to be skeptical about implicit bias training, and how to differentiate real solutions from illusory quick fixes.

A written transcript of this conversation is available on persuasion.community

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