Re 6 charts that explain why American politics is so broken

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: John Gilmore <gnu () toad com>
> Date: October 28, 2017 at 7:58:22 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net, gnu () toad com
> Subject: Re: [IP] 6 charts that explain why American politics is so broken
>
> How to Lie with Statistics (a great book, by the way):
>
>  https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2975855W/How_to_lie_with_statistics  
>
> The Vox article claims:
>
>  Yet the view of immigrants as a burden is completely overwhelming
>  among one Republican-leaning subgroup -- "Country First
>  Conservatives."
>
> That's because the people interpreting the survey *used the results of
> this question* to define that subgroup.  Every one of the people in
> the subgroup answered that immigrants are a burden.  Not because lots
> of people agree with that (it's only 6% of the population).  But
> because the people making the charts DECIDED that people who said
> migrants are a burden, should be called "Country First Conservatives".
>
>    John
>
> PS: "immigrant" has become a biased word in our era.  A much better
> word for examining the phenomenon of people who cross borders is
> "migrant".  Every immigrant is also an emigrant; that is, they
> enter one country, and leave another.  Yet I seldom hear about the big
> problem that emigrants are causing -- despite them being the same
> people as the immigrants.  People seem to have much more balanced
> views of "migrants" than they do of "im-migrants".



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