I'm inclined to suspect that social scientists hate and fear the people they study (which may be what motivated them to become social scientists?), but in the spirit of what you said at the end...
"This study is a reminder that one should look for general and neutral explanations before jumping to politically motivated theories of the outgroup=bad type."
...I'd entertain any general and neutral theories people might have.
Over estimation is hardly surprising given majority tend to overestimate risk and immigration is viewed by most as risk. Add to that all minority groups have been afforded increasing prestige and visibility by progressives in recent years often at expense of majority (eg disproportionate roles in advertising relative to numerical size) and also many minority groups are also growing and rate of change feeds into perception. And minority groups tend to be younger and so more visible.
They don’t really think this it’s just a polite way of expressing native preference and attaching it to something concrete where nativism had become demonised
I'm inclined to suspect that social scientists hate and fear the people they study (which may be what motivated them to become social scientists?), but in the spirit of what you said at the end...
"This study is a reminder that one should look for general and neutral explanations before jumping to politically motivated theories of the outgroup=bad type."
...I'd entertain any general and neutral theories people might have.
Over estimation is hardly surprising given majority tend to overestimate risk and immigration is viewed by most as risk. Add to that all minority groups have been afforded increasing prestige and visibility by progressives in recent years often at expense of majority (eg disproportionate roles in advertising relative to numerical size) and also many minority groups are also growing and rate of change feeds into perception. And minority groups tend to be younger and so more visible.
Would explain why so many people believe stupid things like that deportations would solve the housing market.
They don’t really think this it’s just a polite way of expressing native preference and attaching it to something concrete where nativism had become demonised
Also housing market operates on the margin ie it does not take huge numbers to skew pricing. You even see this in more liquid markets like stocks
Interesting!
Interesting....🤔
Interesting. Requires much study!