Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Correct Contrarian Cluster - Less Wrong
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Yes, if nearly all "contrarian" views are just conformity with local groups, then there will be no c-factor - just a lot of ideologies that don't correlate with each other. This was alluded to in the OP.
This could be true of the general population but not of academia/intelligentsia, in which case polling 10,000 respondents there might still work.