The far right on CB

[creekster]

Originally Posted by Tex

No. The other option (implied in my last post) is that the middle can look extreme to the extremists.

That option is not supported by the data. I, as you have already conceded, am more moderate than you, or at least in the same neighborhood. Moreover, the extent and nature of the extremism shown in others' results is not identical, as most are extreme in one axis but not the other. That all who care to opine see you as extreme sort of makes your porpse option very unlikely. This is especialy true as I suspect (but can't prove) that most people here see me as much more moderate than you when our scores are very close.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by Tex

No. The other option (implied in my last post) is that the middle can look extreme to the extremists.

LOL. That's hilarious Tex.

I remember a discussion I had with you once on CB where I asked if there was ANYTHING about the republican party with which you disagreed. You made a short list indicating that your only complaint with the party is that it is not always sufficiently conservative. Moderate, indeed.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by creekster

That option is not supported by the data. I, as you have already conceded, am more moderate than you, or at least in the same neighborhood. Moreover, the extent and nature of the extremism shown in others' results is not identical, as most are extreme in one axis but not the other. That all who care to opine see you as extreme sort of makes your porpse option very unlikely.

Data? This is all opinion here. Maybe we don't opine on the same topics. Or maybe I am extreme on some singular issue that gets frequently discussed, but mainstream on all the others that never get talked about. Maybe people's personal distaste for my sometimes bombastic style unduly influences them. And maybe I DO try to get people's goats by playing devil's advocate from time to time.

There are lots of options here, so stop trying to present me with your own false dichotomy.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

LOL. That's hilarious Tex.

I remember a discussion I had with you once on CB where I asked if there was ANYTHING about the republican party with which you disagreed. You made a short list indicating that your only complaint with the party is that it is not always sufficiently conservative. Moderate, indeed.

Conservative is the new moderate.

[creekster]

Originally Posted by Tex

Data? This is all opinion here. Maybe we don't opine on the same topics. Or maybe I am extreme on some singular issue that gets frequently discussed, but mainstream on all the others that never get talked about. Maybe people's personal distaste for my sometimes bombastic style unduly influences them. And maybe I DO try to get people's goats by playing devil's advocate from time to time.

There are lots of options here, so stop trying to present me with your own false dichotomy.

Given that you sort of agree with both of my options in your response here (devil's advocate = playing games and bomabstic style leading to failure to make your moderate point=poor communnicator) it is certainyl unfair to say I am forcing a false dichotomy down your throat. The question is whether your other propsed options are reasonabel or supported. Not opining on same topics? Possibly, but this seems very unlikely as you opine on many political issues. It could be, of course,m that your reputaiton comes from your religious positiona dn this was not included int he survey, so that could be aprobelm with my poisition which I concede (even though you didn't raise it). As to being mainstream on a most things but not on the frequently discussed topics, this is merely a repeat of your first point. So, we are left with 1. Poor communnicator; 2. chain yanker; 3. willful failure to reveal more moderate positions (which sends one scurrying back to number 2); or, 4. by sheer luck ofthe draw, we just never happen to hit on those areas where you are very moderate.

Did I miss any?

[Indy Coug]

Given how far left socially some of the posters here are, it just appears to them that the moderates are more extreme than they really are.

[Lost Student]

Originally Posted by BlueK

Sorry, but any questions where you don't know what to answer or that present false dichotomies are BAD questions. A bad question in regards to research is one where the person answering can't figure out how to answer. Since every person is different and might take the same question a million different ways it means the result is uninterpretable which = worthless result.

I agree that there were a lot of false dichotomies in those questions.

My political compass
Economic Left/Right: 1.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.18

[Tex]

Originally Posted by creekster

Given that you sort of agree with both of my options in your response here (devil's advocate = playing games and bomabstic style leading to failure to make your moderate point=poor communnicator) it is certainyl unfair to say I am forcing a false dichotomy down your throat. The question is whether your other propsed options are reasonabel or supported. Not opining on same topics? Possibly, but this seems very unlikely as you opine on many political issues. It could be, of course,m that your reputaiton comes from your religious positiona dn this was not included int he survey, so that could be aprobelm with my poisition which I concede (even though you didn't raise it). As to being mainstream on a most things but not on the frequently discussed topics, this is merely a repeat of your first point. So, we are left with 1. Poor communnicator; 2. chain yanker; 3. willful failure to reveal more moderate positions (which sends one scurrying back to number 2); or, 4. by sheer luck ofthe draw, we just never happen to hit on those areas where you are very moderate.

Did I miss any?

I'm starting to see what you meant when you said you feel like Cali Coug.

[creekster]

Originally Posted by Tex

I'm starting to see what you meant when you said you feel like Cali Coug.

A perfect non-response response (I did ti again!).

[Tex]

Originally Posted by creekster

A perfect non-response response (I did ti again!).

After a while I get weary of having my positions re-stated for me over and over in strictly pejorative terms. If you want to believe I'm a tongue-tied chain-yanking moderate-in-extremist's clothing, then by all means.