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On Aug 3, 2017 1:54 PM, "glen ☣" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm inclined to call that articlet "fake news". 8^) YouGov has a good > rating with 538 (https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/). > But I can't help but wonder about the one-sidedness of the articlet. Why > only include those 2 (or 7 ... or 8, or whatever it was) questions? > Where's the fine-print link to the poll and its analysis? Maybe I missed > it. Etc. > > Regardless, I have 2 reactions: 1) Excellent! The more the flat-earthers > flock together and reinforce their batsh!t delusions, the more obvious it > becomes to anyone how delusional they are. Maybe they'll even go all > "Heaven's Gate" and suffocate themselves from all the methane[†]. 2) It's > not so much self-defeating on the R's part as it is our (every one of us) > inability to think about complex things. I posit the tendency to trust > Trump will correlate with the tendency to prefer oversimplification. [‡] > But the same would apply to any chant you might hear at a liberal > march/rally. Anyone who enjoys those stupid chants is enjoying > oversimplification. > > > > [†] https://youtu.be/BPC7e8W8u18 > [‡] I feel the same way about "tl;dr" and people who overvalue the > disgusting concept of 'pithyness' and/or sayings like "brevity is the soul > of wit". No, it's an indicator of ADHD you aphorism-obsessed @#$%. >8^D > > On 08/03/2017 12:23 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > The Economist sez: > > > > We asked YouGov, a pollster, to survey 1,500 Americans about Donald Trump > > and several national media outlets. When Republicans were asked whether > > they trusted Mr Trump more than the New York Times, Washington Post or > CNN, > > 70% sided with the president each time. Republicans now loathe these > > outlets so much that nearly half would be glad to see unconstitutional > > means used to silence them, writes our data team > > > > > > https://goo.gl/Xmfqcr > > > > > > I've wanted to know if Trump voters hang onto him after all the harm he's > > done to them. Apparently they are like this tweet: > > [image: Inline image 1] > > > -- > ☣ glen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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