Nectanebo comments on Less Wrong’s political bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nectanebo 26 October 2013 03:31:11PM *  2 points [-]

And humans, even lesswrong readers, are all varying degrees of irrational. Therefore understanding the distribution of political affiliation of people that use the site is a significant step towards understanding the site's bias.

Comment author: Carinthium 28 October 2013 01:28:31AM 2 points [-]

It may be evidence, but it still leaves as an open question whether political affilitations are slanted as a result of greater rationality or a political bias. Without some sort of controlled experiment this would be hard to tell.

If they aren't slanted, it either means that what we discuss is not related to politics (implausible) or that Lesswrong doesn't have an impact on such matters.