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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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