UK Politics Thread (Part 2)

Not here, whole family make @Mascot look like Thatcher.

Just slightly. I found the test kind of hilarious tbh.

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Stopped answering when religion came into it.

Definitely aimed at a US audience, so seems kind of useless when talking about fixed personality traits.

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I might steer clear of Flobs in the future. ( :wink: )

I saw one of these surveys a while back and one of the questions refered to whether I thought ā€œAntifaā€ was a problem. I had to look it up. Itā€™s short for anti-fascist. I mean generally I would have thought that itā€™s the ā€œfascistā€ bit which most people have a problem with.

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Though I suspect itā€™s my interpretation of the wording of some of the questions that has pushed it that high.

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:rofl:

Interesting that you had to look it up, is it not very common in the UK?

Indubitably. Itā€™s just that there happens to be a particular association. Not saying itā€™s causative in any way.

What I did find refreshing about the book is that Altemeyer is constantly at pains to emphasise that the results are mostly just correlations, and I thought he explained quite well the limitations of psychological studies.

What perceived superiority? I was simply clarifying where the dividing lines lie for me.

Canā€™t help you if your personal vendetta against me prevents you from seeing thatā€¦

Isnā€™t it quite an American thing, the recent use of the term at least? I know I started hearing about it because of the 2017 Charlottesville terrorist running people over at the protests.

Funny how being anti-fascist is seen as pejorative in some circlesā€¦

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Iā€™d heard of the phrase but wasnā€™t sure what it meant exactly. There are anti-fascist movements in the UK but they tend to have different names. I actually live in Germany now, I think being antifa is a residency requirement.

Antifa is more of a loose organisation/movement and has historically been far left, so kind of goes beyond just the literal meaning of anti-fascist.

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I donā€™t think itā€™s self-published, just available for free. I find that there are quite a few really useful academic books out there available for free, which is great. I think there were a few statistics texts that I got for free, along with others I got when Cambridge University Press were doing a giveaway during the pandemic.

E-books only however.

Over here they are extreme leftwing terrorists who have no problems with using violence to get their way.

A bunch of assholes IMHO.

Thatā€™s Tory domain. :grin:

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  1. I have no vendetta against you. Youā€™re not relevant enough in my life to influence my feelings in either a positive or negative way.
  2. You quoted me, then posted a very patronising illustration of the difference between opinion and fact.

NB:- Wrongly at that. Itā€™s only your opinion than Nunez creates lots of chances, others might say he creates a few chances

Well yes, considering that you were the one who raised the point.

Had anyone else raised the point I would have quoted them.

Statistically he does, heā€™s one of the top in the league at creating chances. My wording of it might be poor but the facts are what they are.