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4 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is a good critique of my piece for those who didn't read it, and those that like to make crazy assumptions.
One thing the author does is argue that even though liberals are more likely to read every single newspaper asked about, it's mathematically possible conservatives are all reading one newspaper each and there's just a tiny portion of liberals reading everything. Responded here.
Other problems listed here.
I thought I made a mistake in critiquing his analysis by not taking account how many Dems are in the survey, though now that I think more about it, it prob still helps the case; matters is having some threshold of ideological people who read serious content, total numbers matter.

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