For that, past data on actions constitutes the most vital information.
Exactly. Which is why manipulating the past data is essential in politics. Exaggerating the differences between ABCD and A’B’C’D’; and/or claiming that WXYZ never happened and was just an enemy propaganda. You can teach people to cluster incorrectly, if you make your clustering criteria well known.
(As an example, you can teach people to classify “national socialism” as something completely opposite and unrelated to “socialism”; and you can also convince them that whatever experiences people had with “socialism” in the past, are completely unrelated to the experiences we would have with “socialism” in the future. This works even on people who had first-hand experience, and works better on people who didn’t have it.)
Exactly. Which is why manipulating the past data is essential in politics. Exaggerating the differences between ABCD and A’B’C’D’; and/or claiming that WXYZ never happened and was just an enemy propaganda. You can teach people to cluster incorrectly, if you make your clustering criteria well known.
(As an example, you can teach people to classify “national socialism” as something completely opposite and unrelated to “socialism”; and you can also convince them that whatever experiences people had with “socialism” in the past, are completely unrelated to the experiences we would have with “socialism” in the future. This works even on people who had first-hand experience, and works better on people who didn’t have it.)