[cauch]

I don't pretend it is your opinion. I'm saying those are right-leaning positions, and they don't correspond to the reality.

So, yes, empirically, it is legitimate to conclude that "reality is left-leaning". If you randomly take ~10-20 left-leaning and right-leaning positions, empirically, you see that the right-leaning positions are significantly incompatible with the reality. The null hypothesis that left-leaning and right-leaning positions are identically spread around "compatible with reality" is not supported. (and spare me "we cannot tell anything until we have done a really precise study", that is not being empirical, that's being biased into grasping at straws to keep the null hypothesis alive as long as possible)

[Gareth321]

> I'm saying those are right-leaning positions, and they don't correspond to the reality.

I don't think they're right leaning positions in Europe, but I won't speak for the US.

> So, yes, empirically, it is legitimate to conclude that "reality is left-leaning". If you randomly take ~10-20 left-leaning and right-leaning positions, empirically, you see that the right-leaning positions are significantly incompatible with the reality. The null hypothesis that left-leaning and right-leaning positions are identically spread around "compatible with reality" is not supported. (and spare me "we cannot tell anything until we have done a really precise study", that is not being empirical, that's being biased into grasping at straws to keep the null hypothesis alive as long as possible)

I disagree, for the same reasons you outlined.

[cauch]

> I don't think they're right leaning positions in Europe, but I won't speak for the US.

But the article you provided is about US politics. When they said they provided right- and left-leaning questions, these are US right and left.

> I disagree, for the same reasons you outlined.

And as I've said, this is not an empirical approach. An empirical approach would be a refinement of the most probable hypothesis based on observations. What you seem to do is to refuse observations under the bad excuse that "we need to do a more precise study" (and if a study is done, it does not count, we need to do another more precise one).