Verbal tilt model confirmed for political behavior
Also my own results for those interested
As an experiment, I am paywalling every post in December. No, my child is not literally starving to death. He is in fact growing faster than expected, already at 8 kg at 3.7 months, which is ~90th centile. Nevertheless, babies cost money. Also, below the paywall is my Riot IQ results for those curious.
This paper came out a while ago, but I neglected to comment on it.
You may recall 5 years ago I forwarded the verbal tilt model of certain behavioral patterns across various social groups:
Later Roon and others renamed this pattern to wordcel in 2022 (a play on incel), which then got very popular. Popular enough that the usual verbal tilt journalists started writing ‘explainer‘ pieces on it. Of course, other researchers had been writing about this before me as well, Ludeke et al stands out (2017, 2018).
The Minnesota crew decided to test the verbal tilt model on political behaviors and various sociopolitical views in their dataset: