(Data is taken from the second survey I hosted, with 277 responses. I will do a proper result post soon, this is just for this one question).

I asked people, “Where are you on the political spectrum on [economic / social] issues?“. Here are the results:

The sub identifies as left leaning, and it does so relatively more on social vs economic issues. Here is a third chart where I put each responder on their more right leaning position (so “Right” and “Center” or “Left” and “Right” would both become a “Right”). (For this I had to put “Not Applicable” somewhere, so I put it after “Center”.)

The two questions are obviously highly correlated (only 14% are Far Left on Economic Issues, but among the ones that identify as Far Left on Social Issues, it’s a majority. If the answers were uncorrelated, it would skew farther to the right). Still, a bunch of people did answer differently for both questions.

Why is this relevant? Because I also asked responders to estimate how many other people would respond either “Right” or “Far Right” on at least one of the two questions, which precisely corresponds to the above chart. In particular, 20% was the correct answer. Here is what people guessed the percentage to be:

That’s a bingo!

So not only does this sub idenfity majority left, but people were roughly correct in estimating much this is so. And the most guessed answer is the correct one.

Here is the same graph for the cummulative data set. That is, for each point on the X-axis, the Y-axis shows the percentage of responders who estimated that X value or a lower X value.