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DGLaity @dglaity.bsky.social

There was a paper I read (I really ought to make a system so I can find my way back to the cool ones - but you never know in the moment if you'll need it again), that concluded that reading tolerance & political alignment tend to correlate (there was a whole bit on how they handled it - it was...

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DGLaity @dglaity.bsky.social

...brilliant). They found that extreme left leaning folks (presumably as far as you can get before closing the loop - a la France) have a reading tolerance close to 300 words, whereas extreme right leaning folks' tolerance tends to be around 62 syllables. Doesn't help I forget which journal it...

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DGLaity @dglaity.bsky.social

...was, but I think it must've been published between late 2019 & now, because I think I read it during lockdown. Definitely it was one of the linguistics journals. Just can't remember which one - sorry.

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