Welcome to The Populist’s Playbook
- Are you uneasy about what’s happening with politics?
- Do you ever feel like roughly half of voters have taken leave of their senses?
- Do people you thought you knew well seem to suddenly believe unbelievable things?
The Populist’s Playbook – Podcast and Blog, pulls apart twelve, well established, techniques that are used to manipulate voters.
Using modern and historical examples we explore: What they are, Why they work, and How to counter them.
In other posts we look at other analyses, in particular of Scottish, British and European politics.
Welcome to the Populist’s Playbook
Avoiding the Sunk Cost Fallacy
Sunk cost Fallacies come when our biases fool us to throwing good effort after bad. Learn to spot and avoid them.
Who were better? Take That, or New Kids On the Block?
Take That and New Kids on the block were both bands who gained commercial success from the early 1990s. While both groups have had their share of successes and devoted fans, there has been ongoing debate among music fans and critics about which group is superior. In this analysis, used music theory and statistical analysis…
2022 in Review
Here are our highlights for 2022. It’s been a good year for the site, we more than doubled our visitors and increased the number of articles and analysis. January Most Scots started the new year blocked; and I was no different! I wonder what criticism it was that was too much so I made it…
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