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Comment author: buybuydandavis 31 May 2012 02:14:24AM 2 points [-]

But you have to adjust for the fact that on many issues people don’t actually apply their full attention and come up with independent conclusions.

It's not just that they didn't give it their full attention, but that part of their attention is focused on correlations with the opinions of others.