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Re: A Berkeley Study That Portrays Liberalism Positively?!!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:46:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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I’m shocked. I’m also kidding.
The most interesting thing to me about
this study is the motivation of the researchers. When the day is done and
the results are in, it simply amounts to patting oneself on the back.
This is research?
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I read about this on a certain Other Forum and basically said “eh.”
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lol For the record, I signed up again with yet another email addy, and was
summarily nuked; they must checking IPs. I have officially given up life in the
underground. Pity.
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It’s a too-small sample size from a too-small geographic area. I’d say it’s
close to meaningless, and in any case the factors of adolescent life and
parental leanings likely weigh more upon one’s political destination that
does one’s own “whininess.”
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Agreed.
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Of the few dozen former high school classmates I’ve been able (or inclined)
to track down, very nearly all of them gravitated to exactly the political
affiliation I would have predicted, myself included. The indicators present
in adolescence are probably more reliable than the relative “whininess” of a
toddler.
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I wasn’t a whiney child (so I’m told), and I did grow up liberal, but I
gradually saw the proverbial light and grew conservative. What bothers me most
about this (to Tim as well) is it assumes that people are cast somehow in their
political viewpoints. Doesn’t make sense to assume that, it seems to me.
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Even if that whiny “toddler” is a six-foot-five demagogue who hosts a
three-hour daily radio show plus a daily hour-long primetime TV show...
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D’oh. I’m only good on TV references pre-nineties. Is that a stern jab?
JOHN
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