Going green makes you mean!

Equality 7-2521 wrote: Dean wrote: Both the article and the study are 4 years old. There were doubts about the methods used in the study at the time of publication (as the article mentions, unfortunately the links are dead). Reading through the study paper itself (and not the newspaper conclusions), it seems like very naive "set of experiments" to me. The original study just goes to show why psychology and sociology are not real sciences as it fails to remember that correlation does not imply causation.  That's a bit harsh. The standards in the fields are unfortunately low, but it's hard to say that psychology isn't a science.

Edited by Dean - August 05 2014 at 13:46

I don't know if "green consumers" are less kind to others and more likely to cheat and steal, but I do suspect that they are susceptible to being hoaxed.

"Ethical consumers less likely to be kind and more likely to lie, cheat and steal " Yes because usually they are richer people. And a recent study found a correlation between wealth and those three behaviors you mentioned. 

Questions about the validity of the study's methods aside, I am not surprised to see that conclusion. Other studies have found, for example, that exercising self-restraint leads to pervasive anger. There was another funny study that found Prius drivers are a****les. And let's not forget the manipulable effects of the expectation of reciprocity. I can think of a dozen reasons I'd expect this outcome regardless of methods.

Blacksword wrote: ^^^ I bet a lot of studys do that. You could probably prove that greenies are more likely to paint their &rse blue on a Sunday than everyone else if you know how, and as individuals we choose what to believe and what not to largely dependiong on what we WANT to believe. That's just my opinion... Gore is the worlds leading faux greenie though isn't he. Odd that the Guardian should report on this, as it's a left/liberal paper. I would expect to see something like this in our Daily Mail newspaper, which in the UK is like the Infowars of tabloid newspapers.

I think you can make a good case for Gore being a faux green.  I still haven't gotten over of his killing of Current TV...

And his wife, Tipsy doing the whole PMRC thing...

Having said that, he would have been a much better president than W.  We'd still have a lot of bones to pick with him, but I don't think he would have let us get attacked on 911.


Edited by Slartibartfast - August 03 2014 at 13:17

ask Dr Manhatten or Stitch

CosmicVibration wrote: and smoking weed makes you violent...

Yep. People murdering cheetohs and twinkies indiscriminately. It's disgusting.   

and smoking weed makes you violent...

Well, I think we can take that as scientific fact then. I can smell that Nobel Prize coming our way.

New study shows most people are holes. 

Source:  45 years putting up with the human race.