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What a show of recalcitrance. You could probably bring up this issue in conversation and use it as a free speech litmus test. I am reminded of this comment [htt
by realitygrill 11y ago
What a show of recalcitrance. You could probably bring up this issue in conversation and use it as a free speech litmus test. I am reminded of this comment [http://lesswrong.com/lw/kat/the_benefits_of_closedmindedness/ayqg http://lesswrong.com/lw/kat/the_benefits_of_closedmindedness...]:
2-26% of Americans thinks gay people should not be allowed to speak
3-36% of Americans think that atheists like me (& 79.2% of LW) are better seen than heard
7-49% think militarists should shut up
16-48% of Americans disagree with free speech for racists
16-75% claim Muslims should not be permitted to preach against America
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoSurely those aren't confidence intervals coming from a place like lesswrong. (also "16-75%"? Seriously?)
- icebraining 11y agoThe data comes from a blog on Discover[1], which is itself an analysis of the data from the General Social Survey[2]. The 16-75 is because the blog author groups the answers based on the score in the Wordsum test by the responder. People with higher scores are less keen on censoring others. [1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/09/intelligence-challenged-people-and-free-speech/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/09/intelligence-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Social_Survey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Social_Survey
- yuubi 11y agoThe 16 and 75 were different people (the top 20% and bottom 12% of scorers on a vocabulary quiz that was included in the survey).