Liberals are the most likely to have taken each of these steps to block, unfriend, or hide. In all, 28% of liberals have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on SNS because of one of these reasons, compared with 16% of conservatives and 14% of moderates Link
Sounds about like what I would expect What I've found on this board is that they'd rather resort to hurling insults or pulling the race card when challenged on their opinions.
What that study really tells you is that there is a larger number of wingnut d-bags that need to be unfriended/blocked, etc. because their d-baggery is embarrassing.
"The cohort is so small that it is not possible to do a statistically reliable analysis of trends. But as a rule, there were no ideological differences among those who had dropped someone from their SNS world because of politics." ---from your own article
Well, you can just beat your head against a wall of stupid so long before you have to make a change for your own mental health.
Uh, those are among the people who had dropped someone. The key point here is that liberals were about twice as likely to drop someone in the first place compared to conservatives or moderates.
Can't fix stupid but you can at least ignore them. I think some need to heed this when dealing with bigtexxx, basso, samfisher etc.
...that is the exact same sample you used to claim that liberals are less tolerant; Facebook users who dropped friends by blocking/unfriend them. What's the point if the sample size is too small to provide normally distributed data?
Haha, that is your takeaway from this study?? Here, let's put this in The Onion terms: "Area man ignores street preacher warning of apocalypse." I can only take so many videos on Obama's secret muslim communist terrorist extremist-black-christian background and health care death panels and abortionplexes and etc. Those random people I barely knew from high school spamming me on facebook will just have to live with me blocking them. Maybe you forgot to finish your thread title? "Liberals less tolerant... of bats**t crazy people disrespecting their quaint little place on the internet"
There is no doubt that certain conservatives on this board are more tolerant of murderers on average. Maybe its only when the victim is black.
No, the sample size isn't too small at all. Liberals are twice as likely to drop folks for political reasons as moderates or conservatives. JEEZ!
sigh. It says right in the article that a nationally recognized polling agency says that the sample size on this subset of data is too small to draw inferences from...on their own data. For all intents and purposes (I don't know what metric they used---let's say it failed the Anderson-Darling test), it could say this particular sample of liberals eats babies four times as much as conservatives, and the results could not be used to make any general SCIENTIFIC and STATISTICALLY VALID conclusions about liberals or conservatives.
