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I don't think it works out that way. Thinking about politics as a single left/right continuum might make it seem like it would, but * measuring distance to kn
by elyobo 7y ago
I don't think it works out that way. Thinking about politics as a single left/right continuum might make it seem like it would, but
* measuring distance to know how "far" they are is hard, so hard to say how far any given position is from the "median or average" viewpoint
* hard also to measure not just the distance, but how common such a position is, which you'd need to do as well
* harder still to do this over many different positions
* harder still when you realise that, of course, the left/right thing is an incredibly simplified (although sometimes useful) way of looking at a complicated set of topics
For any individual "moderate" it seems very unlikely that they will end up "in the middle" even across a range of political topics.
For an aggregate of all "moderates", then it'll end up somewhere, but no reason to assume that it will be in the middle of things (even if you could determine where such a middle even was).