{"id":35080,"date":"2011-05-08T05:41:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T05:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/the-slow-decline-of-trust-over-time-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-05-08T05:41:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T05:41:55","slug":"the-slow-decline-of-trust-over-time-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-slow-decline-of-trust-over-time-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"The slow decline of trust over time | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/05\/the-end-of-trust\/\">made an admission of my lack of trust<\/a> after the 2008 financial crisis. I should have been more precise and clarified that my collapse in trust has been particularly aimed at elites and &ldquo;experts.&rdquo; In any case, I realized that the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sda.berkeley.edu\/cgi-bin\/hsda?harcsda+gss10\">General Social Survey<\/a> has 2010 results available. This means that <strong>I could check any changes in public trust and confidence from 2008 to 2010!<\/strong> Below in the set of charts there is one that assesses trust in banks and financial institutions. The direction of change validates my specific implication. <strong>But it seems that my intuition was wrong in that American society had slouched toward more general distrust.<\/strong> This makes me less pessimistic about the direction of our culture and the future rationally (I can&rsquo;t say that my visceral <i>emotional<\/i> cynicism has been abolished).<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/77b2e_trust1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11553\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/77b2e_trust1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"476\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p>As you can see there wasn&rsquo;t much change between 2008 and 2010. For the broad question of &ldquo;can you trust people&rdquo; I also decided to break it down by political ideology, education, and intelligence in two year rages, 1972-1991 and 1992-2010. There are noticeable differences in intelligence and education (less intelligent and less ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/77b2e_i-WITdeuFXs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/77b2e_OTD_eDcNGKs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I made an admission of my lack of trust after the 2008 financial crisis. I should have been more precise and clarified that my collapse in trust has been particularly aimed at elites and &ldquo;experts.&rdquo; In any case, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/the-slow-decline-of-trust-over-time-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}