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I would be interested in the result from, say 1000 people taken at random! (Subject, of course, to their assessment of the various political parties being correct-which it may not be)


Surely a sample of 1,000 should end up as average (0,0) and if they didn't then there's something wrong with the centering of the scales? What other yardstick could we possibly have?


I suspect that if you took a 1000 peole at random the result would not end up near 0,0 because every society has a "prevailing culture and attitudes" - the UK is, despite various peoples efforts, still essentially a liberal democracy.

Perhaps if you took a larger worldwide sample it might com out more "central"?
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Surely a sample of 1,000 should end up as average (0,0) and if they didn't then there's something wrong with the centering of the scales? What other yardstick could we possibly have?

I think the scales are rather American-biased.


Yes, I believe that. Good point.

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prof beard wrote:
SafeSpeed wrote:
Dusty wrote:
I would be interested in the result from, say 1000 people taken at random! (Subject, of course, to their assessment of the various political parties being correct-which it may not be)


Surely a sample of 1,000 should end up as average (0,0) and if they didn't then there's something wrong with the centering of the scales? What other yardstick could we possibly have?


I suspect that if you took a 1000 peole at random the result would not end up near 0,0 because every society has a "prevailing culture and attitudes" - the UK is, despite various peoples efforts, still essentially a liberal democracy.

Perhaps if you took a larger worldwide sample it might com out more "central"?


You mean we need a proper sample? :hehe:

I suppose one possible other 'zero yardstick' might be average beliefs on a certain date. That way we could also track social changes over time.

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I suppose we could average our score. Not that that would necessarily be representative of the popul;ation at large.

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I'm really green too! I want fusion asap!!!!

I simply cannot understand why the govt aren't throwing money at fusion research.

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I'm really green too! I want fusion asap!!!!

I simply cannot understand why the govt aren't throwing money at fusion research.


About three reasons (as I understand it):

1) It's a whole lot dirtier (in a radiation sense) than the original dream
2) The project lifetime is in the order of ten governments and the results are too far away to interest one government
3) Some believe that the problems are so large that we will never see commercial scale fusion reactors

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