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The ideological position of winners under different voting systems, shown in 2 dimensions.
Along the left you can see, FPP, FPP with a primary, and RCV (in order).
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@StatsLime
Les échos des bords de la Meuse,
Halte là, on ne passe pas!
Joined August 2019
- Replying to @LinkofSunshineIf the most complex math you can imagine is calculating the volume of a sphere I feel bad for u
- Replying to @LinkofSunshineBasil. You know how sometimes people "clean" their hard drive Your hard drive is beyond cleaning. It needs to be buried thousands of feet below the earth, encased in concrete, and clearly marked as toxic so no future civilization will ever have the misfortune of coming across it
- The working class is incapable of driving without being drunk?
- Replying to @LinkofSunshineLet me guess: this is the average and some smartass in the Millennial category said "a trillion dollars"
- Ahh, collider bias, my old friendThe more Black people support a policy in the U.S., the *lower* the likelihood that U.S. institutions write that policy into law. vox.com/2015/6/13/8768…
Readers added contextThe above tweet is incorrect and misinterprets the data. The is caused by a well-known statistical phenomenon called Berkson's paradox. Dropping cases where black & white voters agree on policy means that overall public opinion becomes a confounding variable. x.com/StatsLime/stat… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson's… - Replying to @cheer_wineThey're mad because they're misunderstanding the statement as universalism, which would actually be a massive reversal of Catholic theology Catholicism teaches that everyone *can* be saved if they repent (the ideal), but not that everyone will necessarily be saved (universalism)
- In the early 2010s it was still illegal to marry someone of the same sex in most of the country "c'mon, they can't have been *that* homophobic"--California held a referendum specifically to cancel all the gay marriages they'd had. it passed. In CALIFORNIA.
- Replying to @medved_bjj @HannahBerrelli and @Andr3jHBritish, Indigenous, and People of Celthood
- Wouldn’t work. The problem isn’t the material; even ones made if hardened steel will break easily. The problem is that the walls are very thin, because you just can’t fit enough metal in a 2 inch box for a 6 foot staff that won’t snap instantly.
- Replying to @LinkofSunshineBasil. You know how sometimes people "clean" their hard drive Your hard drive is beyond cleaning. It needs to be buried thousands of feet below the earth, encased in concrete, and clearly marked as toxic so no future civilization will ever have the misfortune of coming across it
- Replying to @StatsLimeThey're conditioning on substantial disagreement between whites and blacks, which creates a negative correlation between black and white public opinion. Then, b/c there's more whites than blacks, the slope just reflects that more popular policies are more likely to pass.
- Replying to @camfassettIf you’re working in Python, try SymSpellCheck
- Replying to @nominalthoughts and @LinkofSunshineYou're supposed to wipe it, like with a cloth or something
