How Knowledge Seeking and Knowledge Chaperoning Impact Individuals and Societies
Abstract
© The Author 2021
A study that explores the relationship between how a person seeks knowledge and how they govern (chaperone) their use of knowledge in order to solve problems. This study graphically places participants on a novel chart referred to as a bidimensional knowledge matrix. In order to highlight differences in how liberals, conservatives, and political centrists view the world. The study provides insights into how these groups are alike, and how they are different. In particular it provides a framework for communication between the groups, both in terms of helping individuals learn and also in terms of helping them work together towards pragmatic solutions to common problems. The study shows demonstrable and repeatable patterns for how participants from each political ideology chart on this bidimensional knowledge matrix. It also provides evidence for a positive correlation between those persons who chart towards the center of this graph and success in five different categories of wellbeing.
Keywords: political ideology, tribalism, knowledge seeking, knowledge chaperoning, predicting success
