Comment by khms on The noncentral fallacy - the worst argument in the world? · 2012-08-27T19:57:57.482Z · LW · GW

the Liberal Party (conservatives, ironically)

Hmm. My understanding is that the liberal parties are rather often, let us say, closer to the conservative side of the spectrum. The reason this appears strange to especially citizens of the USA is that, for convoluted historical reasons, they use the term "liberal" to refer to the progressive side of the spectrum, whereupon their liberal party needs to be called "libertarian". (And it's not particularly progressive, either.)

Comment by khms on Avoid inflationary use of terms · 2012-05-30T22:54:49.175Z · LW · GW

Hmm. I wonder how many such studies looked at environments where the majority had a reasonable scientific education and there was no pre-existing religion?

(This just might be a trick question.)