The Glade 4.0

If I recall correctly, it was that there are more "conservatives" than "liberals".

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Again, tell us why your numbers matter. If you think the established methodology for mining prose is wrong, then tell us why your numbers matter; tell us why they are important, significant, and correct. You see, I haven't set the bar high at all. You've made an assertion; you produced numbers you think support that assertion; and, now, you're simply jumping up and down saying, "I'm right!"

That's called a bare assertion fallacy and a grand case of confirmation bias.

We didn't make the original assertion; we didn't create a table of meaningless numbers and claim it supported our assertion. YOU did that, which means YOU have to pony up and suffer the scrutiny of your napkin math. And when your napkin math fails basic scrutiny, it means you get to say mea culpa.

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You think too hard about this stuff Riov.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Heinlein said it better than I ever could, so I'll let him do it:


And in that, the Glade certainly attracts more of the second type.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

you don't.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5657&p=128001&hilit=leaning#p128001

Yeah, I guess if by "original" you mean months later than when it was brought up...

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4621&p=105109&hilit=+conservative#p105109

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Your weighted average includes 100% of the respondents' Hellfire posts. Mathematically speaking, this is exactly the assumption you are making when you assert that your results have validity.


It would be equally true to say that it's the worst approximation we're going to get (supposing that you're right that no one will ever perform another analysis). Ordinality is meaningless in a set of 1.


I don't see any convincing arguments that your analysis is a reasonable approximation. Several major issues have been raised about your methodology and about the methodology of the test upon which your data relies in the first place. You haven't answered any of those issues, that I can tell. The only justification you've given is that "these are the only numbers we have". That really isn't relevant. There is no particular reason, let alone obligation, to "go with" any analysis at all. If the only analysis we have is too flawed to draw meaningful conclusions, then we should still reject that analysis.

But setting aside issues with methodology and data, I'm not convinced that your numbers are even the best approximation possible using said methods and data. You've ignored an entire dimension of the data for no discernible reason.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

The dimension of adorabaliciousness!

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I always laugh at how conservatives claim to not want to control people. Sure, conservatives are just fine with you spending your money on whatever you want, as long as those things aren't alcohol, drugs, prostitutes, pornography, gambling, abortion, union membership, or Islam. But other than any of those things, sure, you can spend your money how you want!

Who are you referring to? Or is this another example of you deciding you know people's thoughts based on your vast experience, and painting with as broad a brush as possible?

You know those are societal values, perhaps Theriove can explain how those should be codified into law for you.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

/sagenod

Additionally, if he's referring to the Heinlein quote, I don't think he bothered to comprehend it.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

I just want to say I think it's awesome that I have the highest post count, so **** you!

(I also want to know what our custom titles have to do with anything, since Shuyung included them, but since Commence Primary Ignition is also awesome, I'm not complaining )

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

He's just copy/pasting out of the members list, sorted by postcount. Custom title is one of the fields there, so it got grabbed in the copy/paste.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I say do whatever you want, though if you join a union the owner will have the freedom to fire you.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The real winner is the member with the lowest post count.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I always laugh at how all conservatives hold the same viewpoints in your silly little world.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Not only is this untrue except in a fallacious sense, it's completely **** irrelevant.

Fixed for accuracy.

Crap.

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Holy shitsnacks!

very well put

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Ron Paul 2012

Er... why am I 1? Shouldn't I be negative 1?

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Anything within 2 points of an axis is too close to center to be described left or right. As such, you have the entire board leaning center, economically. (or rather, not leaning much at all.) This is pretty much where one would expect any random cross-section of people to be. However, I suspect we do lean very significantly anti-authoritarian.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Well, sure. The Ranger class that fostered our community is a bunch of hippie woodsmen survivalist militia-types.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Still, at close to -6 on the Libertarian/Authoritarian axis, I feel like a jackbooted fascist in this place.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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If you only scored in at a -7, we need to firebomb your house.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.