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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Do you think the criticisms of the recent opinion poll you posted was based on flawed liberal assumptions or were they a fair and honest assessment (with which you may disagree) of the validity and value of the poll as well as your subsequent conclusions?
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Nah, I saw no manifestation of those assumptions in my poll thread. As far as I could tell, the criticisms consisted of legitimate concerns about the question wording and sample selection, with a few snarky remarks about the poll being "tripe" thrown in for good measure. When I get around to my radical critique, I think you'll have a better idea of what I mean.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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