taryneast comments on 2011 Survey Results - Less Wrong
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I generally expect LW to grow less metacontrarian on politics the larger it gets, so this change didn't surprise me. An alternative explanation (and now that I think of it more likley) is that the starting core group of LWers wasn't just more metacontrarian than usual, but probably also more libertarian in general.
And the large increase in population seems to include a large portion of students... which my experience tells me often has a higher-than-average portion of socialist leanings.