Timur Kuran
Turkish-American economist and political scientistWikipedia
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Oct 13, 2026
Scott KestersonHOST
And then the third element of this, of the idea of doubters go silent, is something called preference falsification.
Scott KestersonHOST
And this was, uh, i- identified by Turkish American economist Timur Kuran in his 1995 book, Private Truths, Public Lies.
Scott KestersonHOST
What he showed is that people often say one thing in public while believing another in private.
Scott KestersonHOST
So when enough people do this, nobody can tell what the group really thinks.
Andrew BriggsHOST
... paint it in such a way that there are going to be a certain amount of people who are motivated to exercise.
Andrew BriggsHOST
And then, um, there's a, an author named Timur Kuran, where he writes about essentially whenever you You stigmatize an idea, uh, or a word, you don't make it go away, you just make people start holding that belief privately.
Andrew BriggsHOST
So a lot of these people who are-
DylanGUEST
Right
Oliver TraldiGUEST
And you probably had something on the other side with, with Trump, right? So you had, there you had preference falsification.
Oliver TraldiGUEST
Uh, Timur Kuran has written about this.
Oliver TraldiGUEST
You almost certainly had, during Trump won during that election 10 years ago, almost certainly had people pretending, y- you know, having some pretense about who they supported, not saying that they like Trump, or even people who voted against Trump not saying they understand certain positions of his.
Oliver TraldiGUEST
Um, and, uh, so there's preference falsification where, uh, yeah, people are just pretending that they, that they don't have an understanding of this, they don't believe this.