• Cethin
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    3 months ago

    Left and right can be useful, but it’s only a single data point. If you get all of your political beliefs from a single data point then you’re an idiot. As with everything, there is more nuance than that. It’s not useless. It just isn’t that encompassing.

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      3 months ago

      Isn’t it the opposite of a data point? Left and right are very broad categories, each of which includes a lot of data points

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        3 months ago

        Well, it’s (theoretically) the average position of every position they hold, which is one point. The issue is that everyone values different things in different ways, so it’s not the most useful thing.

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          3 months ago

          I don’t agree that it’s an average as much as it’s a set containing many data points, but sure, just semantics I guess