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0 pointsTylerE10mo ago0 comments

Most questions you could guess a number somewhere vaguely near 50% and be right a substantial amount of the time given such massive error bars.

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cm201210mo ago· 2 in thread

Thats a common fallacy because we tend to care about issues that are 50/50 or divisive. Most opinions are not divisive but thus dont get attention.

TylerEOP10mo ago

That seems like an implied constraint? You don't run polls asking if the sky is blue.

Quite often the sky is in fact not blue.

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