New World Order University Forum

Glassbooth at http://glassbooth.org offers a quiz to help you select the presidential candidate to support by matching your positions on the issues with his. NWOU took the quiz and discovered we were leaning to the wrong candidate. We conclude from this exercise that position matching is only part of the process of deciding which candidate to support. Personal qualities, news coverage, particular events, and other bits of data have pushed us to an emotion-based opinion that resists change. NWOU searches for information that contradicts our opinions and likes to look at all sides but recognizes that objectivity is a myth and emotion plays a big role in opinion formation. Perhaps we should become more aware of exactly which emotional appeals succeed in shaping our opinions. NWOU is interested in opinion formation because the information we researched in The Hidden Masters changed our view of history, religion, and politics. We also subscribe to the idea that one’s worldview shapes one’s opinions, even to the extent of ignoring any facts that conflict with one’s basic worldview. And yet, opinions do change. The process of opinion change remains mysterious to us and we welcome comments from anyone with superior knowledge. Meanwhile, take the Glassbooth test and ask yourself why you support a candidate if he isn’t the best match for you on the issues alone.

Tags:

This entry was posted by Director on Sunday, January 6th, 2008 at 11:55 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.