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		mattmaroon on Sept 19, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The real difference between liberals and conservat... What's unscientific about it? He's collected data to test hypotheses pyschologists have had for years.

wustl07 on Sept 19, 2008 [–]

Drawing a bunch of lines and opining on them for 20 minutes does not qualify as science.

mattmaroon on Sept 19, 2008 | [–]

That comment is absolutely ridiculous. Those lines are graphic representations of surveys. They're collected data points. That's certainly part of science.

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