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Replying to @generativist
What are the scores? Some kind of sentiment? Is this based on data or conceptual?
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Replying to @kareem_carr
Purely conceptual. (I forgot to make it XKCD style as a cue for that.)
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Replying to @kccarrell @generativist
You can always scale the left ideological sentiment and right ideological sentiment measures so they are distributed in the same way! Beliefs don't have objective scales anyway.
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People talk about the political middle as if it's well-defined. But it's endless. Imagine you have 100 binary positions. There are 100,891,344,545,564,193,334,812,497,256 ways to be in the precise middle. There are exactly 2 ways to be at the extremes.
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Replying to @kareem_carr @kccarrell
Yes, it's often a Utopic no-where. When people refer to the middle as a triangulated ideological position, they're invoking group calculus. As in, let's compromise on positions A and B for social cohesion. Valuable and necessary, for sure. But, the solutions are often bad.
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