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As it turns out, socialism does negatively correlate with reading the sequences: coding "less than 25%" as 12.5% and "almost all" as 100%, the naive correlation appears to be -0.06; on average, socialists claim to have read 47% of the sequences, compared to the 51% claim of nonsocialists, a difference of about .12sd. This is significant at the .1 level. Controlling for whether one has been here since the OB days, we go down to about a 2 percentage point difference in sequence completion, about .06sd within each "cohort" and not at all statistically significant.
There is a big effect if you look at time in the community rather than sequence reading. 38% of newcomers who have been part of the LW community for under a year picked "socialist", compared to only 21% of the oldtimers who have been part of LW for 2 years or more. Most of the shift is from libertarianism, which is at only 28% of newcomers vs. 41% of oldtimers.
Since old-timers tend to be Overcoming Bias fans the libertarian-leaning nature of that blog explains the difference.