People don't actually 'fit' into these categories.<p>It's just that people cannot easily sense when terms like 'right' and 'left' have become practically meaningless, and are being used as blunt objects by both sides, to no useful end. When the landscape approaches an even distribution of anything, there is no way out of a "flame war" as someone has cleverly put it. Signals get crossed all the time in ways that could not present in double blind studies of animals.<p>Like that old trope in psychology "Do you hear voices?" "Are they pleasant voices?" "Are they telling you to do things?" as a form of entrapment / diagnosis / dismissal.<p>Of course it's not that simple, until you meet someone else for whom it is. Then you're defending your sanity. Just to touch directly a bit on the discussion, I feel threatened by people who claim they don't hear voices. They're either lying or missing something.<p>Even splits of opinion based on observation and judgement (real or imagined) is a dangerous time.
Papers or articles like this always rub me the wrong way. They seem to take for granted that powerful elites aren't ever actually conspiring. I know they're mainly addressing the low-iq/schizo ones primarily but it's still annoying considering countless "conspiracies" have been shown to be true
> Individuals with economically left-wing and culturally conservative attitudes tend to score highest on conspiracy thinking.<p>Because conspiracy is usually committed by right-wing individuals?