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it's hilarious that "policy" is in the middle. A great idea otherwise, but policy and public opinion are not nearly this closely linked.
by pksebben 4y ago
it's hilarious that "policy" is in the middle. A great idea otherwise, but policy and public opinion are not nearly this closely linked.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoPolicy, being most difficult and slowest to change, has a lot of intertia, so sticking it exactly in the center of mass / center of inertia makes intuitive sense. And since the shape is symmetrical, that place is also the geometrical center :).
- pksebben 4y agothis is true, if and only if public sentiment is an indicator of the direction of policy. There have been a number of studies that suggest this is not true [1] 1 - https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~jnd260/cab/CAB2012%20-%20Page1.pdf https://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~jnd260/cab/CAB2012%20...