Amazingly, my two matched polls each had exactly 384 responses, over roughly the same 24h period, so this is a decent comparison. Notable that both sides have comparable closet support. IDW has bit more negative perception (33% vs 29%) and 10% vs 19% card-carrying support.
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I've done hundreds of polls on a variety of topics in the past, so I have a decent idea of the demographics of my sample (modulo twitter algo). It's significantly more male than female, tech crowd is overrepresented, and I'd say fairly centrist both culturally and economically.
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Here's the link to the poll on sentiment about Woke
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Poll: What is your view of Woke politics? (as broad progressive umbrella term covering metoo, social justice, climate etc)?
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And here's the link to the poll about IDW
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Poll: Your view of the Intellectual Dark Web (see reply for link if you don’t know the term)
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Why these two? From a variety of conversations, Woke and "Intellectual Dark Web" (IDW) are the two *intellectual* positions people seem to most often have in mind when they refer to "radicals" on other side, and most often have admitted (to me) closet support for one or other.
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It's useful to contrast sentiments about these two rather than their respective direct-action/populist street level supporters (desired or not) because they are sets of ideas rather than sets of he-said/she-said trigger events.
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A possibly worthwhile exercise for people on both sides to ask is: why are there so many people willing to offer closet support but not card-carrying support? And why are there so many people in neutral and adversarial?
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Note that there is no necessary anti-correlation here. I know from anecdotal evidence that many people voted adversarial on BOTH polls. These are the "dislike radicals on both sides" people.
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It's certainly possible to improve how I probed these sentiments. Someone suggested I should have asked about "closet adversary" which is a very good suggestion, but I felt neutral was a more important option to present, and that "adversarial" covered it well enough.
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Would be interesting to poll the individual issues separately from the aggregate labels. Bet people are often wrong about which side matches their views more closely.
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I don't think that matters because that's not how people form alignments in broadly polarized culture wars... it's a sort of spectrum auction/portfolio effect. You pick the basket you feel most comfortable with it at gestalt level.
While that is probably true for "common people", your followship seems far above avg in human quality so they could have far less tribal and much more nuanced views


