In an age of extremes, most people are really pretty moderate
A major YouGov survey shows that extremists are not as prevalent as you might think
by Mark Rice-Oxley
May 03, 2019
3 minutes
It is not hard to scroll through a huge global opinion survey and find the outliers. They are many and compelling: vaccine-doubters, conspiracy theorists, arch-pessimists and even people who approve of Theresa May.
The danger however is that these newspoints can give us a certain impression about the world: that outliers are the norm, that eccentrics are far more prevalent than they actually are.
But the of more, is actually remarkable for the unremarkable things it points out.
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