lukeprog comments on Privileging the Question - Less Wrong

102 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 29 April 2013 06:30PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 28 April 2013 09:12:50PM 23 points [-]

The comparison that leapt into my mind was Chomskians talking about how politicians and the media decide which topics are even discussed. Not sure if they have a term for that. I guess what you call "Privileging the Question" is part of framing in the social sciences sense. It's handy to have a phrase for this particular thing, though.

Comment author: Unnamed 04 May 2013 10:26:34PM 6 points [-]
Comment author: lukeprog 04 May 2013 11:20:22PM 1 point [-]

Good find!

Comment author: Psychosmurf 30 April 2013 01:13:05AM 4 points [-]

I believe they would term it "manufactured consent." Although, I think the two ideas are slightly different. The idea behind manufactured consent is that, in order to answer a question one way or another, you must implicitly accept its premises. It is a special, politicized case of privileging the question.

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 02 May 2013 04:29:43PM 2 points [-]

General note: you are demonstrating a pattern of posting comments that seem to depend on more shared context than actually exists, and which I suspect are consequently pretty much unintelligible to the majority of readers.