Critical Psychology - Science topic

Please do not take this as me being upset, I truly want to offer constructive criticism. I feel the issues with the survey are due to the common blinders of personal experience, and so I offer my rather unusual one as a counter.

I took your survey, and there's a glaring omission. There's no where for people to explain when their answers don't line up with their beliefs, or why. I went to grad school for public health, and failed out, primarily due to the expected course load of 15 hours a semester conflicting with reason or sanity, and an advisor who literally told me, "you're not allowed to tell me about your disability".

I believe in vaccines and medicine, but I haven't had health insurance for 3 years.

Marshmallow root is fabulous for the stomach ulcers I got from NSAID overuse from being a steelworker with fibromyalgia (after the ulcers I've given up on that avenue). Construction was great for Aspergers+poverty (AKA poor social connections), they didn't care if I was weird because I did the job, and safely. But it's no longer a viable option, and I keep track of my work history with a spreadsheet. It's usually about three months before I run out of scripts or the mask slips, and neurotypicals have this thing about punishing non-conformers in dramatic fashion when they don't respond to non-verbal signals to stop doing something. In 'Murica, health insurance is tied to employment, and you aren't eligible for at least the first 90 days. So now my only hope for health insurance is getting on Disability.

I am an early-stage disability advocate with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, so I'm extremely familiar with the vaccine debate. I like the phrasing of the first question, as it dodges the issue of people lying about why they distrust vaccines. I found the phrasing of the second one (about whether public schools force vaccines?) confusing and difficult to answer. I believe public schools should and do strongly encourage and sometimes mandate vaccination, but I do not believe it is a "conspiracy", I believe it is sane and critically important public health policy.

Finally, and most importantly, your questions on conspiracy theory participation in general, while they grabbed some of the big ones, missed the ones my boyfriend's crazy dad signs on to, including the David Adair nonsense and general paranoid anarchist theories and arguments. I also went to a "hipster" church for a while in Fort Worth, with an otherwise intelligent and well-educated congregation, who had completely bought in to the essential oils racket. Tea Tree Oil was great for my combination sunburn/allergy blisters as they healed, but these people thought you could disinfect and clean a house with Frankincense and clear a kid's cold with Eucalyptus alone. I didn't ask about the kids' vaccine status because if they told me the truth I probably would have gotten kicked out of that church a hell of a lot sooner. (They used one of the other autistic homeless people as a prop, and the pastor talked about homeless people in general like vermin. Naturally we got into it.)

While it will definitely turn your stomach, I recommend a deep-dive into the crazier parts of YouTube and Reddit. It will inform questions you didn't even realize were possible for you to have.

Thank you Joost for again engaging in discussion!

What do you mean by "methods almost guarantee a particular result"? We had independent samples. Each half got only one scenario. I am not sure why such approach would "guarantee a particular result"? Sure, the fact that our survey was mainly about suicides possibly had some impact on the way drivers responded (I'll write something about that before I submit the paper somewhere else) and why they decided to respond to our survey; however, we controlled in our analysis for previous experience with suicidal drivers and we had also questions about traffic safety in general including about drunk drivers and drivers who fall asleep.

You might try searching variations on "personhood" and "self", which are terms used in medical anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry.

These authors might get you started:

Comaroff & Comaroff (2001) On Personhood: An Anthropological Perspective from Africa, Social Identities, 7:2, 267-283, DOI:10.1080/13504630120065310

Moore-Gilbert, B., 2009. Postcolonial life-writing: culture, politics, and self-representation. Routledge. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mkh8AgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Vaughan, M., 1991. Curing their ills: Colonial power and African illness. Stanford University Press. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yfqkuCN_JuwC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (Chapter 5, in particular)

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