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> But because it involves an attempt to measure something that has partisan lean, people of one partisan group feel an instinctual need to refute it, lest they
by CoastalCoder 4y ago
> But because it involves an attempt to measure something that has partisan lean, people of one partisan group feel an instinctual need to refute it, lest they lose points or whatever.
I think you make a good point that partisan issues like this can lead to knee-jerk reactions.
You point out how this might play out with right-leaning readers, and it seems plausible to me.
Any theories for how a partisan topic like this could affect left-leaning readers?
- ajross 4y ago> Any theories for how a partisan topic like this could affect left-leaning readers? It... confirms our priors and gives us a label to call out subtle-but-still-obvious bad behavior in a way that gets results because it can be easily understood? I mean, it's true that it might not be rigorously defined. But that's what it means to the woke hippies. And it doesn't sound so awful to me.