Is the belief that Texas is warmer than Alaska innate or a product of social conditioning?

[Boojatta]

I don't think that it's innate. There are probably a lot of illiterate people in Sierra Leone who spend their whole lives without knowing where Texas is, without knowing where Alaska is, and without having any opinion about their relative temperatures.

We can conclude that the belief is a product of social conditioning. If we change the conditioning then we can change the belief. The only reason that people in Alaska are spending a lot of money on heating, blankets, and such things is that they believe that it's cold there. All we have to do is revise their social conditioning and they could save a lot of money.

[MrCoffee]

1. You're wrong, it's completely innate

It's all to do with deep brain conditioning at the time of language acquisition that causes certain phonemes to associate with regional microclimactic norms.

It's got bupkis to do with social conditioning.

[Boojatta]

6. "deep brain conditioning at the time of language acquisition"

Doesn't that imply that it is a product of conditioning? Tell me more about deep brain conditioning. How deep does it go? Can messages that I post on DU do deep brain conditioning on people who read them?

[Angry Dragon]

2. I think the sun is warmer

[ohiosmith]

3. Don't Bogart that doobie!

[HopeHoops]

5. Yeah, especially since Alaska grows some of the best!

[dimbear]

4. Texans are just borrowing trouble, prolly from their loan star. Alaskans need to go with the floe.

Should solve the problem.