orthogenesis

[Question] Are”in­groups” vs. “out­groups” as com­monly used typ­i­cally based on self-iden­ti­fi­ca­tion or is it not suffi­cient?

[Question] Do you think “ra­tio­nal­ists”, or ra­tio­nal­ity leads peo­ple to, stereo­type de­mo­graphic groups less or more than the gen­eral pub­lic?

Sig­nal­ling lack of fa­mil­iar­ity with out­siders or out­side knowl­edge, to raise sta­tus among your in-group peers?