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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Bilow who wrote (693873)1/19/2013 4:54:56 PM
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(1) the chart was made by US academics who are probably rather left wing


Not a valid assumption. Scientists tend to be apolitical. That is changing, though. With the anti-science bent of the Republican party, more and more are self-identifying as Democrat and fewer ad fewer as a Republican. Still, a large percentage don't identify as anything.

(2) the chart is about the tendency to support government control of the economy.


This is incorrect. DW-NOMINATE measures roll call votes on a host of issues of that particular Congress.

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