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CMV: People are much closer in their opinions and feelings about the world than the mainstream media would have us believe.

Mainstream media around the world tends to show face offs between this group or that. Whether it be advocates or deniers of climate change, liberals vs conservatives in politics, men vs women, gay vs straight, white vs black, and the list goes on indefinitely. 

It gives the impression that most of us are dug in  to die hard positions, and that your either with one group or against them. Yet when I speak to my friends, colleagues and family, more often than not people are far more willing to listen, and are much more circumspect than most news outlets seem to portray. Social media creates a treasure trove of content for the mainstream media to feed off, which may in fact be part of the root cause. 

It’s my view that a vocal minority pushes many of these views into the extreme, and the media grabs hold of these positions circulating them to grab viewers attention, manufacturing conflict where it doesn’t naturally exist. 

Change my view.
gpt
The people you’re talking to are family, colleagues, and friends.

This introduces two forms of bias:

1. Selection bias. You are already likely to agree with the people around you most of the time (colleagues and friends) and the people with whom your share a background (family). So it is unsurprising that they would be closer to you in opinion than a truly random sample.

2. Relationship bias. These people know you and have a relationship with you. Most of them will be interested in maintaining that relationship, and as such will temper their opinions while talking to you. Because of this, it is unlikely that they will want to discuss areas with you where you fundamentally disagree with them and the issue is core to their being. This is because they may fear that exposing that will damage your existing relationship.

You need a truly random sample to make this claim, and that’s hard to get without a bunch of effort.