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elmark

I yam what I yam.

Jul 02, 2009 02:08

I guess it's about time to make a big long rambling livejournal post.

I'll separate this into possibly appropriate sub-sections.

I like what I likeOver the past week, I've discovered that I still like what I've liked in the recent past. And my recent past, I mean the past 10 years. Such a statement has not always been true. I've watched the first ( Read more... )

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elmark July 2 2009, 11:35:34 UTC

My use of correlation of was inexact, but I think it's not too far off of reality. Connection with a person thinking Colbert is conservative and them being conservative, not that there's a particularly large probability that conservatives think Colbert is actually conservative/serious. Basically, "you hear/see what you want to hear/see ( ... )

challudym July 2 2009, 18:30:01 UTC

Ohh it's one of Mark's alternate personalities replying XP

It seems to me that trying to divine exact figures from a poll about how people 'felt' about something seems a bit useless. They could do everything exactly as they had a different day and get different results. The extent to which they express their opinion through their answers, and the way they interpret the question, is subjective, too. At best you could look at it and say, well, generally, they sort of tend to feel this way about it.
On the other hand, having fun is useless, too. Run free in your mathematical playground :D

elmark July 3 2009, 12:54:07 UTC

This is why the physics students made fun of the social sciences back in the day. It's all good stuff to study, but some is far more inexact and likely to be oversimplified than any of the "hard" sciences.

evanthered July 8 2009, 20:23:34 UTC

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elmark July 2 2009, 19:25:06 UTC

And I re-read the text of the article (which I didn't do before writing my diatribe) and noted that political ideology was found to be uncorrelated to whether or not they found the segment to be funny. My indication that such info didn't exist in the paper was wrong. People found Colbert's segment to be (on average) tepidly non-funny regardless of ideology.

So, it is reasonable to say that it is true that some conservatives do enjoy Colbert. (Since humor is fairly universally considered enjoyable.)

In lieu of actually contributing anything... ginsengmileur July 3 2009, 09:06:16 UTC

I present this relevant image.

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Re: In lieu of actually contributing anything... elmark July 3 2009, 12:52:18 UTC

Yes.... indeed.