Ideological Turing test
An ideological Turing test (or political Turing test[1][2]) checks whether a political or ideological partisan correctly understands the arguments of his or her intellectual adversaries. The partisan is invited to answer questions or write an essay posing as his opposite number; if neutral judges cannot tell the difference between the partisan's answers and the answers of the opposite number, the candidate is judged to correctly understand the opposing side.[3][4][5]
The Ideological Turing test is so named as to evoke the Turing test, a test whereby a machine is required to fool a neutral judge into thinking that it is human.
History[edit]
The term was first coined by Bryan Caplan in 2011.
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References[edit]
- ↑ Hannon, Michael (2020-11-XX). "Empathetic Understanding and Deliberative Democracy". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 101 (3): 591–611. doi:10.1111/phpr.12624.
the political turing test is used to assess a human’s ability to correctly understand the viewpoint of his or her intellectual adversary. … Caplan actually calls this the‘ideological turing test’
Check date values in:|date=(help) - ↑ Lagarde, Gabriel D. (Aug 12, 2020). "Unlimited Learning hosts seminar on 'The Three Languages of Politics'". Brainerd Dispatch. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
a sort of political Turing test is in order…where they could sit down with a group of people from an opposing ideology and convince them, through debate and discussion, they are in fact of the same mindset.
Unknown parameter|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Galef, Julia (2021-04-13). "Could you pass an ideological Turing test?". The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't. Penguin. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-7352-1756-0. Search this book on
- ↑ Schneider, W. Joel; Kaufman, Alan S. (2016-12-19). "Let's Not Do Away with Comprehensive Cognitive Assessments Just Yet". Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. 32: 8–20. doi:10.1093/arclin/acw104. PMID 27993770.
- ↑ Carter, Stephen L. (2018-08-11). "There's nothing wrong with being wrong". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
Chu borrows from the economist Bryan Caplan the idea of an “ideological Turing test”: If we can’t mimic the arguments of those on the other side, then we don’t understand them well enough to disagree with them.
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