Nornagest comments on 2013 Survey Results - Less Wrong
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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.
Cool stuff. Thanks for going and checking against the numbers :)