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Published · transcript-backedJoseph Henrich: uncertainty
14 Dec 2016 Conversations with Tyler Joseph Henrich on WEIRD Societies and Life Among Two Strange Tribes (Live at Mason)
“Americans had — at least some of them — had relatively similar cultural backgrounds. I guess I don’t know enough about the data at the time to say.”
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- Joseph Henrich
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- uncertainty
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- 14 Dec 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…To follow up on that, in the 19th century, Tocqueville wrote that Americans were among the most conformist of people. It was precisely because they were free, and that they could be organized in mass numbers in a larger market setting and you had a lot of economies of scale. He thought that made us, on average, quite conformist. Do you agree with that portrait? Americans had — at least some of them — had relatively similar cultural backgrounds. I guess I don’t know enough about the data at the time to say. OK. Next question.…
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