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Comment author: 27chaos 27 February 2016 09:52:24PM 4 points [-]

A consequence of this observation is that we should expect Marxists, who believe the free market doesn't work, to lie much more often than capitalists, who think it does. Empirically, however, Democrats seem to lie much less than Republicans (see, e.g., a recent NY Times report on PolitiFact checking of the Presidential candidates), even though Republicans have much more faith in the free market.

This is an extremely terrible proxy for the question you're interested in.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 28 February 2016 01:36:10AM 0 points [-]

Don't be distracted by the question of whether Democrats are Marxist. That's not the issue. My implication was that a survey would show much greater faith in the free market among Republicans than among Democrats. I expect that's true.

Comment author: ChristianKl 28 February 2016 07:22:13AM 1 point [-]

Politics is the mindkiller. Don't use highly political examples where people are likely to disagree with you when you don't want to talk about them because they draw themselves into attention.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 01 March 2016 07:08:07AM 0 points [-]

Politics is the mindkiller, but I have no other data on that point.

Comment author: 27chaos 28 February 2016 06:40:30AM 0 points [-]

I couldn't help but be distracted, sorry.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 01 March 2016 07:08:56AM 0 points [-]

I should have written it in a less distracting way. I shouldn't have expected people to treat it as a non-political example.

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