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by GaryNumanVevo 2199 days ago
In sociology anyways, there's no such thing as a "normal" vector. People talk a lot about the Overton Window in a 1d sense, either you're left or right. When in reality it's a series of multi-dimentional "value" axes which inform / create certain societal norms.
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Surveys of this sort are deeply flawed because despite their best efforts they never capture anything close to the full dimensional of the person taking the survey. Asking complicated questions that have "it depends on the situation" answers but asking the person being surveyed to pigeonhole their answers into one of a few crude categories is inherently and hopelessly flawed.