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Re: The Political Map [NOISE?]



On 23 May 96 at 9:45, Bill Frantz wrote:

> This is because any analysis of political opinion that tries to reduce it
> to a one dimensional metric is ipso facto wrong.  Two dimensions gives you
> a much better match.  (Try personal freedom on one axis and economic
> freedom on the other.)  I suspect the more dimensions you include, the
> better you analysis will be.

Just two dimensions?

I'd be cautious of the personal freedom scale, since many groups 
aren't consistently in one place there.  Certain groups assign 
priorities to some freedoms over others, as well as who those 
freedoms apply to, etc.

 
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