[ale] technology/politics correlation?

Charles Shapiro charles.shapiro at nubridges.com
Sat Dec 4 10:26:46 EST 2004


Uh, could be just 'cause liberals tend to be slightly younger, hence
better attuned  to the whole computer culture.

Of course, my stepchild refuses to use anything but the ugliest, most
outdated Windows software on her machine. But I suspect that has more to
do with family politics than national politics.

-- CHS
(Gun freak Libertarian)

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 19:00, Jim Philips wrote:
> I don't want to kick off a political catfight. I just thought this was 
> interesting. One liberal blog I read posted its browser and OS statiistics 
> from the server logs. They then sought out the same statistics from some 
> conservative blogs. They claim that visitors to liberal blogs are much more 
> likely to use Firefox or a non-Microsoft OS, with Linux usage running higher 
> on the liberal sites. Kos (the blogger) claims his finding are consistent 
> across lots of conservative blogs.
> 
> Here is the link:
> 
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/3/11290/0220
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