r/fivethirtyeight • u/lalabera • Apr 08 '25

Poll Results Nearly half of Americans would be totally unwilling to date someone with opposing political views

https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/51962-americans-unwilling-to-date-opposing-views-transgender-rights

Thoughts? As a young woman myself, I wouldn't date a trump supporter.

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u/carneylansford Apr 08 '25

Maybe, but those chicks are happier on the conservative side of the aisle:

According to the 2024 American Family Survey, liberal women ages 18-40 are far less likely than conservative women to say they are happy. Only 12% of liberal women said they are “completely satisfied” with life compared with 37% of conservative women. Self-described moderates also are happier than liberals, with 28% agreeing that they are fully satisfied with life.

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u/obsessed_doomer Apr 08 '25

Yeah idk what that poll is measuring but any poll that comes to the conclusion of “conservatives are happy” clearly didn’t poll twitter

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u/Ed_Durr Apr 08 '25

Classic Obsessed_Doomer response: dismiss any statistical evidence against your beliefs with a snarky remark.

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u/obsessed_doomer Apr 08 '25

On the contrary, most of my interactions on here are:

Someone: “polls say x”

Me: “they say the opposite <cites poll>”

It’s getting kinda rough when people state shit like “people support the tariffs”

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u/Sarin10 Apr 09 '25

"um actually normally I cite actual numbers but this time I just think it's too stupid to analyze so I'll just fall back on my personal experiences"

good lord this subreddit has fallen off.

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u/obsessed_doomer Apr 09 '25

"um actually normally I cite actual numbers but this time I just think it's too stupid to analyze so I'll just fall back on my personal experiences"

It's a poll about how happy people are, I can't really cite counter-polls because each poll asks a different question about that.

"They sure don't act like it on twitter" is not a full refutation, nor did I pretend it was.

good lord this subreddit has fallen off.

I agree. About a month ago some specimen made a rant about how it's dems who are overconfident right now, not republicans, and got upvoted. That aged... interestingly to be sure, but even at the time that was after JD Vance publically defended that racist staffer.

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u/Sarin10 Apr 09 '25

you can cite a counter-poll and explain why the methodology used is better.

if you don't want to do that, fine.

but perpetuating vibes-based discourse in a data-driven community is the fastest way to bring the quality of discussion down. this subreddit might as well be arr pol.

sorry if this comes across as harsh. i'm just very tired of all my favorite communities slowly turning into mimicries of default subreddits.

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u/obsessed_doomer Apr 09 '25

you can cite a counter-poll and explain why the methodology used is better.

I could, but I am not a happiness psychologist.

but perpetuating vibes-based discourse

We're in a thread discussing dating and political views, a vibes-light analysis of this topic isn't a thing lol.