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Wow that is interesting. I guess it's pretty intuitive if I think about it, why would extreme opinions be expressed differently. That would make a great data se

• anigbrowl 12y ago
  I'd love to analyze but it's a hard problem to quantify because you're talking about things like modes of arguments and so forth which are pretty abstract. The best small-scale idea I've had so far is to begin with an ontology dictionary and see if there's a correlation between social endorsements and characteristic adjectives and/or cliches. However, I haven't spent much time on this, as my experience is that the more ideological folks are, the less attention they pay to statistics and suchlike. If you could produce quantitative evidence that followers of the Plaid Party were mentally identical to followers of the Polka-dot Party, both sides would find a way to condemn you, and strategists within the two parties would simply try to leverage the observed effect one way or the other. I'm coming to agree with Slavoj Zizek that ideology (of all stripes) is itself the problem but that's easier to say than to fix :-/