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Originally Posted by tbomachines
Inherent error in the sample audience. The 10 on each side are not representative of their "sides" as a whole, and cannot be equated as such. Furthermore there is no definition as to what defines someone as leftist or rightist in your post, and from whose perspective. I could go on. Sorry thats the academic in me
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Discussion in the public forum.
You start somewhere.
Since the preferred mode of many is shrillness I offer an alternative.
You surely don't believe you are the only academic; this site has a dozen or more.
Adjust sample as one wants.
I suspect even with a wide latitude of settings the results will be consistent.
This allows the discussion to move from rhetorical to actuarial.
In real-world scenarios that is considered progress.
Dismissing with a few sentences, of course is an alternative.
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