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Originally Posted by Sunny  That is interesting because the exact same question came up for me when I was reading the section on voting. Hawkins has a chart on page 116 showing conciousness level and voting in the 2004 election, but it doesn't go higher than 415 and it didn't really make sense to me. Were either of you able to understand this one? |
I'm not sure what you are asking for but here's how I'm approaching this particular chart. I believe he did not go above log 500 because none of the groups he considered were above...neither is the majority of the people in any of the politically generalized groups.
The breakdown of the chart made sense to me as did Hawkin's explanation of the Democrats being slightly lower due to their attempts to integrate below 200 concepts into their platform.
Here's what is interesting for me in regards to this chart. Hawkins refers to the Conservatives as being the highest calibrated on the chart .. 415. Growing up I lived in Orange County which is referenced to consistently as the conservative stronghaven. I was exposed to both positive/negative of the majority's outlook politically & classified it under my category of "conservative." However, I don't believe that what I originally defined negatively as conservative is what Hawkins is referencing.
Anyways I do wonder who/what he is referencing by conservative as he is not classifying Republicans as conservative. They are listed separately.
I do believe Hawkins is calibrating each political group's platform/representation of themselves during the 2004 election. Like I wrote above I have had extensive experiences with some extremist liberals..who were very prideful & sometimes scary. So I am not surprised that they calibrated below 200. Actually it confirmed for me what my experience already told me.
