Tuesday, December 22, 2015

"Trump played a clever trick when he called Clinton’s bathroom visit ‘disgusting’"-Washington Post.

No, he didn't.

Trump was surely talking off-the-cuff in his usual style

Yes.

 — and the comments were criticized as offensive and sexist — but it was another example of his mastery in exploiting the psychological biases of conservatives...

No.

In fact, a growing mass of academic research...

Oh, here we go.

...has shown that conservatives have a particular revulsion to “disgusting” images.

The research — still debated —...

Some of the recent research has been most pronounced evaluating the differing responses of conservatives and liberals to “disgusting” or “negative” images.

In a 2008 study in the journal “Cognition and Emotion,”...

Across most metrics —...

Across most metrics.

Conservatives showed a statistically significant likelihood of reacting negatively to “disgusting” situations.

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Wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute. So, liberals react positively to "disgusting" situations? How about if I shit on Hillary Clinton's head?

Another, more recent study...

There's a more recent study.

In a paper published in 2014 in Current Biology,...

There's a paper published in Current Biology.

Okay, enough. This article reads like it was written by an academic, not a pencil, I have not checked. Une momento por favor...No! Zachary Goldfarb is on staff at the Post. My apologies to casting aspersions on the asparagus of academics. This is a bullshit article. Does Goldfarb think Trump or his campaign advisers, like, read "Current Biology," "Cognition and Emotion?" Trump did not engage in a "trick," a product of cognition, he spoke what he felt, off the cuff as Goldy says, before Goldy got crushed by the growing mass of academic research. Growing masses: now that's disgusting!