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People with the opposite politics say exactly the opposite. Both are illusions—in fact they're the same illusion: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Here's an example from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25389506. I could give you a hundred more. Both sides feel like the site is dominated by the other side, to a degree in proportion to the intensity of their own views. In fact this phenomenon is so reliable that one can use it to predict not only a person's politics but how strongly they feel about it.

Other bits on this if anyone cares:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...




You know, you've got a sample size here that'd make for a hell of a study. Maybe get hold of Scott Alexander, I hear he's taking some tentative post-doxing-threat steps out of the bunker.

Not even kidding. I'd participate, and I'd be fascinated to see the results.




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