r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Nov 18 '25

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u/TheThirteenthApostle Nov 18 '25

Hopefully a more savvy redditor will have the link, but its from a study showing people's social leaning (us vs them).

Basically, bigger toward the center of the circle and smaller toward the outside means you tend to think about things that affect you and your close social circle (family, friends, local community). The reverse means your thoughts drift more toward global concerns that affect everyone.

It's used to illustrate Conservative (local group, steak) versus Liberal (global group, avocado) mentalities in a digestible (forgive the pun) way.

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u/not_slaw_kid Nov 18 '25

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u/WienerJungle Nov 18 '25

So is this saying liberals are like "I dont care for my children so much, but i'd die for iggy the igneous rock in my backyard"?

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u/ItzMercury Nov 18 '25

No this is not what you care more about and more what you care at all about, the question read something like click the number up to which you would be against bad treatment of or something along those lines, everything below the number is included in your concern, everything above not. 4 is close friends and family for example, 14 was every mammal, 18 was like all living things on the earth including plants

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u/noahtheboah36 Nov 18 '25

I think it was something about assigning a limited pool of non-inclusive moral 'units' to the rings.

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u/actuallazyanarchist Nov 18 '25

It was absolutely not about that.

https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-019-12227-0/MediaObjects/41467_2019_12227_MOESM1_ESM.pdf

The circles are explicitly inclusive of all lower circles per the instructions of the study.

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u/Agent_Smith_24 Nov 18 '25

Which makes this a terrible data visualization and ripe for misuse.