The illusion of asymmetric insightDum blog me apresentado pelo Buck, aquele que desapareceu, e o qual muito acompanho.
É sobre a nossa percepção do mundo, das pessoas com as quais convivemos ou não, dos grupos os quais pertencemos e aqueles outros grupos, os estranhos, diferentes, bizarros... Enfim, os outros. Sinteticamente e em livre tradução,
O equívoco: celebramos a diversidade e respeitamos outros pontos de vista.
A verdade: somos conduzidos a criar grupos e acreditar que os outros estão errados somente por serem outros.
Primeiro, o autor conta de um experimento onde dois grupos de guris criaram, ao que parece, instintivamente duas tribos com regras, penalidades, líderes e rituais e depois, ao encontrarem o outro grupo de guris, começaram, de início, perdendo todo o tempo que tinham e o que não tinham, definindo-os, comparando-se, medindo-os e depois, quase uma guerra tribal. Pelo que entendi, muito é devido a maneira como criamos identidades e percebemos os outros. Nesse processo de auto-identificação, é da nossa natureza nos diferenciamos, nos encaixamos, pertencemos ou não e passamos muito, mas muito tempo, enquadrando e tentando entender os outros... E, em consequência, criamos uma verdade e aqueles que não se enquadram nela, são burros.
Num outro experimento mencionado, percebeu-se que as pessoas pensam saber mais sobre as outras do que essas outras sobre elas mesmas e elas, sobre você. Não é surpresa, mas as outras pessoas fazem o mesmo.
Sobre identidades em grupos e máscaras,
It’s not a new or novel concept, the idea of multiple identities for multiple occasions, but it’s also not something you talk about often. (...)
So, you don social masks just like every human going back to the first campfires. You seem rather confident in them, in their ability to communicate and conceal that which you want on display and that which you wish was not. Groups too don these masks. Political parties establish platforms, companies give employees handbooks, countries write out constitutions, tree houses post club rules. Every human gathering and institution from the Gay Pride Parade to the KKK works to remain connected by developing a set a norms and values which signals to members when they are dealing with members of the in-group and help identify others as part of the out-group. The peculiar thing though is that once you feel this, once you feel included in a human institution or ideology, you can’t help but see outsiders through a warped lens called the illusion of asymmetric insight.
Resumindo,
The illusion of asymmetric insight makes it seem as though you know everyone else far better than they know you, and not only that, but you know them better than they know themselves. You believe the same thing about groups of which you are a member. As a whole, your group understands outsiders better than outsiders understand your group, and you understand the group better than its members know the group to which they belong.
The researchers explained this is how one eventually arrives at the illusion of naive realism, or believing your thoughts and perceptions are true, accurate and correct, therefore if someone sees things differently than you or disagrees with you in some way it is the result of a bias or an influence or a shortcoming. You feel like the other person must have been tainted in some way, otherwise they would see the world the way you do – the right way. The illusion of asymmetrical insight clouds your ability to see the people you disagree with as nuanced and complex. You tend to see your self and the groups you belong to in shades of gray, but others and their groups as solid and defined primary colors lacking nuance or complexity.
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