Nornagest comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nornagest 09 February 2014 05:52:16AM *  4 points [-]

This is easily tested by comparing against the country of origin question. As it turns out, a bit over half of LW comes from the US. Wikipedia claims that about 33% of Americans identify as Democrats (vs. 28% Republican and 38% other or independent), so we'd expect about 17.5% of LW to identify as Democratic if the base rate applied, up to 35% if every American LWer identifying as liberal or socialist also identified as Democratic.

Bearing this in mind, it seems that party members identified as such really are underrepresented here.

Comment author: taryneast 10 February 2014 08:53:21AM 0 points [-]

Cool stuff. Thanks for going and checking against the numbers :)