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Leading applied behavioral science at scale. CXO at Oceans. Half in San Diego, half in Sri Lanka. Dad of Bear. mattwallaertofficehours.com. AppliedBeSci.com for "WTF is he talking about?” 🎙️ An N of 1 Podcast - https://www.buzzsprout.com/2369863

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

Another day. =]

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

You are saying voting for Trump and believing in fascism are synonymous, in the same way you believe that voting for Trump and wanting troops in Portland are the same.

This would show they are not.

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

Yes, I understand you think that.

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

I’m interested in the experiment of seeing if they would directly vote for fascist tenets; please reparse the sentence.

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

I don’t know why the question mark; you can’t label a bunch of folks as fascists if it isn’t a real and definable thing. And I’m not at all confident that they would vote for that definition but would be interested in the experiment.

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

There is a special kind of joy in encouraging childless adults to watch KPop Demon Hunters.

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

If you took the actual tenets of fascism and put them to a vote in rural America, do you think they’d pass?

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202....

Voting patterns in the 2024 election

Voting patterns among many demographic groups in 2024 were similar to those in 2020 and 2016, but Trump made gains among several key groups, a Pew Research Center analysis shows.

www.pewresearch.org

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

A third of rural Americans voted for Harris.

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

I think saying people “vote against their interests” is an interestingly paternalistic phrase that often belies how little we know about what they are interested in.

30%+ voted for Harris. Often in defiance of family and community. I’m not quick to write them off.

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

Do you have any evidence that people who generally vote Republican lie more than people who generally vote Democrat?

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

I am a psychologist. And a rural Oregonian. And a lifelong liberal. So you might want to just accept the idea that painting people that you literally don’t know much about, with a broad brush, isn’t the best idea.

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

Do you happen to know what percent of rural Americans voted for Harris?

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

This feels like a very narrow understanding of human behavior.

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

You can vote for Trump and still think the feds should stay out of Portland. Look at the two votes on right to die: we voted for it, federal government interfered, so we passed it again by an even wider margin.

Also, there are huge chunks of rural Oregon that voted blue.

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

Careful with the broad brush, please. Oregon is largely a rural state outside of Portland and overwhelmingly does not support federal interference.

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

On the coast, my parents don’t have internet. There is no cell phone coverage. I have parked the minivan outside a library at 4am to take a work call more than once.

We have to fight for rural America or there will be no more rural Americans.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

They’re doing everything they can to increase the penalty children pay for being poor.

statescoop.com/fcc-e-rate-f...

FCC ends E-Rate funding for Wi-Fi hotspots, school bus connectivity | StateScoop

The FCC voted to end rules that allowed schools and libraries to use E-Rate funds on school bus Wi-Fi and internet hotspots.

statescoop.com

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

I’m on the road a lot; it is part of social psych, let me grab some citations for you. Hazel Markus and her diaspora of students have done a bunch on this.

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 2d

There is actually a whole field of psych about this, how people perceive others’ preferences as a rebuke of their own. Which, as you point out, is ass backwards because it just means more for you!

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 3d

🎙️ Catch Hunter Black on Episode 24 of An N of 1, with Matt Wallaert! 🗓️ Coming out on Mon, October 13 at 8 am PT!
#podcast #AnNof1 #behavioralscience

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 5d

Force them to fight. Every day. Your survival forces them to battle.

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 5d

🎙 Episode 24 of An N of 1 with Matt Wallaert and Hunter Black is out Monday morning, Oct 13 at 8 am PT! 🗓️
#podcast #AnNof1 #behavioralscience

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 5d

They don’t want to actually interact with it; heaven forbid!

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 5d

Absolutely.

Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 5d

Looking good!