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

[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.