{"id":5090,"date":"2019-12-04T20:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2019-12-04T20:45:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:15:25","slug":"psychological-behaviour-and-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/psychological-behaviour-and-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychological behaviour and bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper IV: Ethics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dolphins, presumed to be the most intelligent and empathetic creatures of the deep, have shared a deep bond with humans.<\/li>\n<li>There are innumerable heart-warming stories about dolphins helping to save doomed swimmers, heading off sharks, retrieving dropped tools for divers, and so on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About the findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A paper on dolphin behaviour in the Royal Society\u2019s journal, Open Science, finds more common ground \u2014 like humans, dolphins are predominantly right-handed, and they are even more fundamentalist about their preference than humans.<\/li>\n<li>The authors observed that over 99 per cent of observations showed them favouring the right side.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Appearance of right-handedness:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Right-handedness appears to be intrinsic to cetaceans, which include whales and dolphins, the only creatures other than primates who are presumed to have some human-like qualities.<\/li>\n<li>This is bad news for the left-handed, who are oppressed quite enough already by the primacy of right-handedness among humans.<\/li>\n<li>The very words we speak are directionally weighed. Dexterity is from the Latin dexter (right), and sinister is Latin for \u201cleft\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>The modern meanings are derived via convoluted routes, including but not limited to myth and augury, but the association of the terms with cleverness and vileness are now permanently set.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way ahead:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The most egregiously handed word is hiding in plain sight. It\u2019s even in the headline above: \u201cRight\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>A wily, duplicitous word signifying both a direction and rectitude, and thereby conflating the ideas.<\/li>\n<li>With that, the victory of the right in human affairs is complete.<\/li>\n<li>But fortunately, barring humans and cetaceans, the rest of nature is ambivalent about handedness. Mice and budgies just don\u2019t care, for instance. It\u2019s best that way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper IV: Ethics Context: Dolphins, presumed to be the most intelligent and empathetic creatures of the deep,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-5090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-studies-iv","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5091,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions\/5091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}