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Comment author: Yvain 10 October 2010 02:12:15PM *  0 points [-]

To the degree that these things are really correlated, I usually interpret it as signaling being a good member of society vs. signaling being above/better than/outside of society.

But I fall pro-nice on five and anti-nice on three of your examples, which doesn't seem too far from chance. If you want to investigate this further, consider getting a few more examples, then making a poll about which sides of each issue different people are on, and seeing whether you end up with mostly half-and-halfs, or with two very different clusters of near-zeros and near-alls. Insofar as you get the two very different clusters, you'd have evidence that this is a real phenomenon worth investigating.