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Jul 29, 2022Liked by Richard Hanania

A set of the population in which my recommendation is almost as powerful as Tucker Carlson's! ;)

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Jul 30, 2022Liked by Richard Hanania

The survey was also too long. I almost didn’t finish filling it out since with 3 kids and a job I have other things to do. Also it would have been nice if it had been formatted a little better (sections were too long which is annoying on a cell phone).

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Jul 29, 2022·edited Jul 29, 2022Liked by Richard Hanania

Your intuition that self-reporting on a survey will leave out a lot of conservatives seems correct. I generally do not put personal information out on the Internet, but for some reason on this one I said what the Hell. I almost didn't. People more hardcore than me would never do it. So, you have lurkers out there. Probably a lot of them.

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I'm always saying that we're lucky we don't get all the government we pay for.

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Jul 30, 2022Liked by Richard Hanania

With 11% of 91 women = 10 people I doubt you can say anything, but I have noticed a small cluster of rationalist-ish bi women. My best guess is it's what happens when you get partial masculinization without the negative experiences that often lead to misandry (a lot of prominent feminists were abused). (The larger pool of women identifying as bi out of support for the LGBT movement probably don't read your blog.)

Jews love to talk about politics. They're overrepresented even in right-wing ideologies as long as those aren't overtly antisemitic (thus all the Jewish libertarians). Stay away from Israel-Palestine as a topic I guess?

As for socially moderate, there are a lot of us who are OK with same-sex marriage (it may have a moderating effect on promiscuity) but don't want Drag Queen Story Hour. Much as everyone likes to talk about Blue and Red Tribes, there are a lot of people in the middle who hold views that don't clearly align with either side and wish everyone would stop screaming at each other.

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Average SAT or gtfo

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Aug 1, 2022Liked by Richard Hanania

On the East Asian thing, I wonder if their relative lack of interest in politics is also a sign of a general passivity in social affairs more broadly. Perhaps this can explain why they are less likely to get promoted despite being very competent? In the end, it's the people who care who win (whether in business or in politics).

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Jul 30, 2022Liked by Richard Hanania

@richard, sorry about this ...I did not contribute as survey looked way too long...so little time...so much to read .....boomer Aussie MD...

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This is an extremely minor thing, but I wish the y-axes on the household income and age charts were arranged by income level/age bracket rather than by the size of the bar.

But man, this is interesting stuff! I wonder if the demographics of non-responders is different. (Indeed, I’ve always wondered if people who hate surveys and never respond constitute any sort of identifiable group, or if they’re just distributed randomly through the population. Surely some statistician has studied this… although I’m not sure how.)

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As a Christian social conservative, I particularly enjoy reading secular-libertarians like Hanania and Pinker because they believe that objective reality is real, and can be understood rationally. I think Hanania is wrong about God, abortion, etc., but he believes in rational discourse and that is more than enough to be worth reading.

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I'm conservative and didn't take your survey. The less known about me (that could be used against me at some later point), the better.

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"I also thought there would be major sex differences, but there really weren’t"

I would guess the differences come out in the presorting of the overall readership, meaning the females who would contribute the most "differences" to your readership aren't part of your readership--the ones who are part of your readership are more like the males. On average you attract a certain type of reader, whether male or female. I'm no statistician, but I think it would be weird if you attracted, on average, gay liberal men and straight conservative women.....but I could be wrong, of course--lots of distributions are bimodal.

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Interesting, but nothing is super surprising it looks like except maybe that your readership is very high earning. That's pretty interesting. Next survey you should include a brief test of cognitive ability (maybe vocabulary) and personality.

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Have you always been nonreligious? I thought I remembered an earlier podcast where you were religious?

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Hi Richard. I am italian and I follow you. Honestly, I decided not to fill it out because of the too many questions devised for Americans. For me they were a bit off-putting (I could not grade in order of importance American Presidents. They mean not to much to me :)).

Nonetheless I follow your political writing with interest. Here in Europe we suffer from censorship out of a illiberal media (even thoigh Italy has still a better situation, compared with places as Germany or the UK). It is therefore natural to follow the ongoing debate in the States.

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Hi Richard. I am italian, on the far right of the politicsl spectrum (at least regarding race, statemanship and societal topics), bisexual but at thr moment not with a high income.

I have not filled it out because certain questions put me off, being them too American in their substance.

Anyway, I appreciate your writing. Here in Europe we are very constrained by a monolithic leftist-liberal media, even though Italy is a bit better than the UK for example. So it makes it natural to follow how certain topics are covered by the alt media in America.

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