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Comment author: JoshuaZ 04 December 2012 08:28:10PM *  0 points [-]

Recall that in my recent comment I also stated I was distressed no one else wrote the arguments I did. I believe we are seeing evaporative cooling of users belonging to ideologies besides the dominant one.

Given that other users are worried about apparently the same thing in respect to certain classically non-dominant ideologies, this seems more likely to be some variant of the hostile media bias effect than anything else.

Comment author: [deleted] 04 December 2012 08:30:13PM *  0 points [-]

Why assume both are wrong rather than just one of them being wrong? Also we do have weak statistical evidence that LW has been drifting in the direction I think it has and strong evidence the positions I talk about are a vulnerable minority here to begin with (see Yvain's polls).

Comment author: JoshuaZ 04 December 2012 10:24:37PM 1 point [-]

Why assume both are wrong rather than just one of them being wrong?

Because the prior given the standard cognitive biases here is that these sorts of claims in general are so inaccurate that the impressions from people are barely informative if at all.

we do have weak statistical evidence that LW has been drifting in the direction I think it has

Can you expand on this?

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