Division and the Silent Majority
2025-01-23
https://gyazo.com/e9ca6492a68dec69aef10a42695e649f
I tried to visualize some kind of skin feeling.
A: Opinions seem to be dividing into parts on social networking sites
It looks as if it may be clearly divided into red and blue clusters.
but this is a bias that mistakenly assumes that everything that is easy to observe is
B: In fact, the silent majority is a huge lump with no clear boundaries
The red and blue that stood out were just small bumps in that big mass.
https://gyazo.com/205c48f9bbcd60d00b7bc62a991d9e70
So which is the majority can be arbitrarily controlled by how the boundaries are drawn.
impetus
62% in favor of "selective married couple surname", 27% opposed NHK Poll | NHK
Selective surname for married couples, 16% "for" and 49% "against" survey of 2,000 elementary and junior high school students, questions and answers deceptive selective surname debate - Sankei News
relevance
I initially wrote it as if the gray distribution encompassed the whole thing, but the political conflict picture is relevant, too.
政治的対立.icon
Bias due to the more radical things you say, the more attention you get.
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