The belief-action gap is more elastic for university educated professionals and less elastic for lower income brackets. I'm reminded of my experience of those who are against the vaccine mandates, but received the vaccine (big brain), and those who were against and didn't receive (lower class, at least in my experience?).
The upper class solved their divorce problem by switching from marrying in their 20s and having 2.5 kids to marrying in their 30s and having 1.5 kids (and falling).
Most divorces get initiated by women, but women know they are too old to start over when they marry in their 30s. There is also less likelihood of a mans status changing suddenly (up or down) in their 30s than their 20s (which could cause divorce) and having fewer children lowers the stress and risk.
Obviously, there is a big cost to this strategy, but it does lower divorce.
I would add one point on the high status family stability issue. There was a period from somewhere in the 70's until somewhere in the 90's where the high status families had higher divorce rates - there was a lot of willful misinformation about the effect of divorce on kids. Then they started understanding the impact - and changed their behavior, becoming very stable. The lower class on the other hand did not return to its earlier stability, I will not get into some of the reasons for the later, but the culture there definitely changed.
I agree that hypocrisy is a skill issue. I would link it to working memory or executive function instead of something like intelligence or processing speed, although the former and latter are correlated if imperfectly so. If someone doesn’t have the bandwidth with for two sets of rules, (1) do as I do and (2) say as I say, perhaps they collapse their behavior into one rule set. In this view, we allow for people who are otherwise smart but incapable of hypocrisy.
I doubt the hypocrisy skill gap claim is true. I would bet money that, for example, highly educated people who claim to be religious are more likely to attend religious services less educated people who claim to be religious.
On a more theoretical level, someone who is better at noticing patterns is more, not less, likely to notice and be bothered by inconsistencies between their beliefs and actions.
Very much agreed. Perhaps one could argue that smart people can figure out divorce is bad without being told.
But really I endorse the view everyone is a hypocrite. It's what we evolved to be. As a social species it's important to maintain a social reality that maintains peace within the tribe. But at the same time you need to be aware of ground truth to navigate the world. When these are in tension, you have to be a hypocrite. It's an evolutionary advantage to be.
That was some excellent needle threading.
The belief-action gap is more elastic for university educated professionals and less elastic for lower income brackets. I'm reminded of my experience of those who are against the vaccine mandates, but received the vaccine (big brain), and those who were against and didn't receive (lower class, at least in my experience?).
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The upper class solved their divorce problem by switching from marrying in their 20s and having 2.5 kids to marrying in their 30s and having 1.5 kids (and falling).
Most divorces get initiated by women, but women know they are too old to start over when they marry in their 30s. There is also less likelihood of a mans status changing suddenly (up or down) in their 30s than their 20s (which could cause divorce) and having fewer children lowers the stress and risk.
Obviously, there is a big cost to this strategy, but it does lower divorce.
I would add one point on the high status family stability issue. There was a period from somewhere in the 70's until somewhere in the 90's where the high status families had higher divorce rates - there was a lot of willful misinformation about the effect of divorce on kids. Then they started understanding the impact - and changed their behavior, becoming very stable. The lower class on the other hand did not return to its earlier stability, I will not get into some of the reasons for the later, but the culture there definitely changed.
I agree that hypocrisy is a skill issue. I would link it to working memory or executive function instead of something like intelligence or processing speed, although the former and latter are correlated if imperfectly so. If someone doesn’t have the bandwidth with for two sets of rules, (1) do as I do and (2) say as I say, perhaps they collapse their behavior into one rule set. In this view, we allow for people who are otherwise smart but incapable of hypocrisy.
I doubt the hypocrisy skill gap claim is true. I would bet money that, for example, highly educated people who claim to be religious are more likely to attend religious services less educated people who claim to be religious.
On a more theoretical level, someone who is better at noticing patterns is more, not less, likely to notice and be bothered by inconsistencies between their beliefs and actions.
Very much agreed. Perhaps one could argue that smart people can figure out divorce is bad without being told.
But really I endorse the view everyone is a hypocrite. It's what we evolved to be. As a social species it's important to maintain a social reality that maintains peace within the tribe. But at the same time you need to be aware of ground truth to navigate the world. When these are in tension, you have to be a hypocrite. It's an evolutionary advantage to be.