Hmm interesting quote on the notion of "preference falsification" in that knitting article seems relevant to the post-covid/ongoing-vax world in which the non-drinkers of Kool-aid (whether after 0, 1, or 2 doses) assume they're the only ones to jump off the bandwagon:
"Professor Timur Kuran is Professor of Economics and Political Science at Duke University, and the father of ‘preference falsification’. His theory relates to things like the fall of the Soviet Union, where almost no one saw the end coming, because they hadn’t realised that an entire population was falsifying their experience to each other. He sees a clear parallel."
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Re: What is it with the knitting community!!?
Date: 2022-11-18 12:47 am (UTC)"Professor Timur Kuran is Professor of Economics and Political Science at Duke University, and the father of ‘preference falsification’. His theory relates to things like the fall of the Soviet Union, where almost no one saw the end coming, because they hadn’t realised that an entire population was falsifying their experience to each other. He sees a clear parallel."