You're probably wrong about how things have changed

I absolutely cannot stand this sampling in psychological studies. It is not a good representation of the population

How in the heck don't researchers realize this? It's lazy, the easy way out to getting a sample to survey.

I think the question for me is why people misestimate others' attitudes, and what that says about them.

For instance, if a group of people are getting more liberal but believe everyone is getting more conservative, is that a reflection of their mood?

I guess it raised a bunch of questions for me about how well surveys track things like mood and perceptions.

> Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 thanks to a huge increase in anti-immigrant sentiment

> Nobody was worried about climate change in the 1990s, but now lots of people are freaking out about it

> Mass shootings have led to a spike in support for gun control

That's not my common understanding for any of these things, though they sound like forgotten hot takes from the perpetual news cycle. None of them even make sense.