AspiringKnitter comments on The uniquely awful example of theism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AspiringKnitter 20 March 2012 07:55:32PM 2 points [-]

Does it really decline with age, or did older people form their values in a different culture? It's possible people's values are stable over time but people born a long time ago were more likely to form different values from the ones formed by people born more recently. Has anyone tried to distinguish between these possibilities?

Comment author: gwern 20 March 2012 07:59:04PM 1 point [-]
Comment author: AspiringRationalist 24 March 2012 08:13:17AM 0 points [-]

Pardon my sloppy phrasing. I did not intend to imply causality one way or another, merely the correlation. I edited the original comment to reflect my intent.

Comment author: hairyfigment 22 March 2012 08:00:31PM 0 points [-]

Robert Altemeyer reports a correlation between a likely-related attitude (support for 'traditional' authority) and -- not age, but having children. Continued education has a stronger apparent effect in the opposite direction. But I don't think he directly addresses this question.