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Do you know anyone personally who has said this?
by saynsedit 10y ago
Do you know anyone personally who has said this?
- 4ad 10y agoI'm not the OP, but I know a few such people.
- mikeash 10y agoI don't even know anyone personally who has expressed any favorable view of Trump. Yet clearly they exist in fairly large numbers, so I don't think that should prevent me from acknowledging them.
- saynsedit 10y agoThe support of Trump has data behind it. Second-hand anecdotes of people claiming they'll vote for Trump just to see the system come down is not data. Without data, it may be such a minority of people that it's not worth significant consideration in a discussion. I'm apt to believe it's an extreme minority given it's an extreme view.
- mikeash 10y agoMaybe so, and maybe people who voted in the EU referendum without understanding the EU are likewise an extreme minority. If you want to stick with easily quantifiable facts then I don't think this is the right discussion for you.
- saynsedit 10y agoFalse equivalence, I wouldn't call uninformed voting (as they are painting it) extreme. I would call malicious voting extreme though. In any case you're probably right. Most people who voted to exit the EU probably weren't uninformed. Google data only represents correlation. General buzz about brexit is a more likely explanation for the search trends. Occam's razor dominates.