I'm not entirely sold on the methodological soundness. It seems like they went into it looking to confirm something, and designed and experiment that probably would. Maybe it's more rigorous than I got from reading the first part of the article, it doesn't come across that way.
I do think the conclusion makes sense, I'm just not sure about how well this demonstrates it.
Let's see... You could make people try a VR driving simulator and make them face various provocations and see how they react... You could put a car out on the road which is driven badly and try putting different bumper stickers on to see how people respond. If it wound up in a crash it would be like mashing up both of Zimbardo's experiments that you could never do today. [1] [2]
From the article: "Finally, we also vary the demographics of the driver of this other car to determine if this effect is even stronger if the viewer is white, and the driver of the car with the sticker is Black."
I wonder why they didn't do the flip-side demographic experiment.
I'm not entirely sold on the methodological soundness. It seems like they went into it looking to confirm something, and designed and experiment that probably would. Maybe it's more rigorous than I got from reading the first part of the article, it doesn't come across that way.
I do think the conclusion makes sense, I'm just not sure about how well this demonstrates it.
Let's see... You could make people try a VR driving simulator and make them face various provocations and see how they react... You could put a car out on the road which is driven badly and try putting different bumper stickers on to see how people respond. If it wound up in a crash it would be like mashing up both of Zimbardo's experiments that you could never do today. [1] [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
[2] https://www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/policings-hidden-curri...
From the article: "Finally, we also vary the demographics of the driver of this other car to determine if this effect is even stronger if the viewer is white, and the driver of the car with the sticker is Black."
I wonder why they didn't do the flip-side demographic experiment.
According to one study, women and southerners are more likely to have bumper stickers
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2017/06/14/southerners-women-...
Now we have whole partisan cars.
Which cars are wholly partisan?
Citroën has some parisian cars
Cybertruck
I, for one, am immediately convinced by all partisan bumper stickers I see.