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Originally Posted by SebC
You can't call a Conservative voter the median, because the median is a well-defined term that applies to populations. The median Canadian voter is Liberal, whether you characterise them as centre, left or right.
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Oh well, I guess if you assert it to be so, it must be true.
Do you know how "because" works? See, the phrase "You can't call a Conservative voter the median" followed by "because" implies that the next statement is a proof or fact supporting the preceding phrase. How does "the median is a well-defined term that applies to populations" qualify as any kind of support for that assertion?
This might seem far afield from the original topic, but actually the root of the problem with this survey is that the people who created it think like SebC. "The Liberal party is the centre, because the median or centrist voter will most closely match with the Liberals. How did we determine where the median voter will vote? We derived it from the Liberal position." This is pure tautology.