Subject: My suspicion is...
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Posted on: 2014-08-19 21:02:00 UTC

... that it'll show us lot fairly accurately relative to each other, but that our relationship to real politicians will be somewhat skewed. They as much as admit that they've refused to move the axes, and thus most of contemporary politics is to the right. Add in the fact that they're making their own judgements about politicians, while we're self-reporting, and you open the way to systemic bias.

So don't necessarily trust our positions relative to zero, but I think our positions relative to each other are pretty sound.

hS

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