The small percent that people say they don’t agree with is almost always the most controversial opinions. I suspect that such a weighting isn’t what people have in mind when they say they agree with a group 9X%.
Fair, but most controversial doesn’t always mean most important. Usually, the narrative is something like “All the hard slogging that this movement has done has been awesome—it’s changed society for the better. But now they’re overreaching”—I can see that aligning(seriously, not just for rhetorical weight) with a belief that the group is really about the sloggy stuff, and the goes-too-far stuff is just a novel addition that isn’t core to its beliefs. That seems to be what Aaronson meant, and also most others I’ve seen use similar phrasing.
The small percent that people say they don’t agree with is almost always the most controversial opinions. I suspect that such a weighting isn’t what people have in mind when they say they agree with a group 9X%.
Fair, but most controversial doesn’t always mean most important. Usually, the narrative is something like “All the hard slogging that this movement has done has been awesome—it’s changed society for the better. But now they’re overreaching”—I can see that aligning(seriously, not just for rhetorical weight) with a belief that the group is really about the sloggy stuff, and the goes-too-far stuff is just a novel addition that isn’t core to its beliefs. That seems to be what Aaronson meant, and also most others I’ve seen use similar phrasing.