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53 Post author: Yvain 17 October 2011 06:49PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 18 October 2011 03:05:56PM 6 points [-]

No, it suggests a source of systematic bias- there still might be signal beneath the noise. Also, in general things go kind of pear-shaped (one way or another) when the government decides to stop paying attention to popular opinion, regardless of how stupid it is.