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0 pointstankenmate8y ago0 comments

Minority Rules: Why 10 Percent is All You Need [0]

So if you have 40% who are committed to it no matter what then it will happen. The reason I bring up the 40% is because in most recent polls that is the amount that is usually quoted as supporting succession.

[0] http://freakonomics.com/2011/07/28/minority-rules-why-10-per...

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Oletros8y ago

Pretty rule, but it has not happened in Catalonia.

And what the rule says is that it will spread, not that is enough to declare independence of a territory when 60% of the population is against it.

When the percentage is 60% or more, we can start talking about inevitability

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