I’m not going to read that paper, but if it really is just based on man-on-the-street interviews, then literally any man-on-the-street interview shot in the US would thusly prove that Americans are just “incapable of empathy”, because that’s not a metric of the population in the slightest. Like, gee, I guess people don’t like random strangers pointing a camera or a microphone in their face unannounced, and tend to get easily annoyed or ‘rude’ because of it.
The better metric would be to conduct large group surveys of multiple different demographics, to which, I’m more than positive you’d get a majority ‘empathetic’ result. Because, not only do large groups of people tend to lean that way, but no culture or race is more inclined to lean towards lacking empathy.
I’m not going to read that paper, but if it really is just based on man-on-the-street interviews, then literally any man-on-the-street interview shot in the US would thusly prove that Americans are just “incapable of empathy”, because that’s not a metric of the population in the slightest. Like, gee, I guess people don’t like random strangers pointing a camera or a microphone in their face unannounced, and tend to get easily annoyed or ‘rude’ because of it.
The better metric would be to conduct large group surveys of multiple different demographics, to which, I’m more than positive you’d get a majority ‘empathetic’ result. Because, not only do large groups of people tend to lean that way, but no culture or race is more inclined to lean towards lacking empathy.
Fuckin Sinophobes, I swear.
You can measure it. I forget details but i think you look at things like