Yeah, it's a bit hard not to compare and contrast opposition to the Vietnam war with opposition to Gulf Wars I and II, the main difference being that there was a significant risk that nice white middle-class…

It's also things that are zero-cost to the 1%. The only downside for them is antagonising the proles.

And a lot of the "left" are happy…

Bringing in epidemiological models for disease outbreak is on the money – something is spreading fast through the whole National stable – perhaps they should be quarantined, lest they infect the public ...- oh, too late....

If you take the how interested in politics are you question, and focus the people who declared "Not at all interested" and then look at how many in person politics discussions were they in, the voting rates are
Frequent discussions 100% (tiny, tiny group)
Occasional discussions…

Well, I'm glad you didn't anyway.

What you're saying broadly chimes with some vague thoughts I've been having. Firstly, and without wishing to minimise the considerable problems that still…

Yes, it looks like an almost classic case of being careful to distinguish causation and correlation. Lots of alternate reasons why these could be correlated besides the hypothesis that these particular news sources improve a person's likelihood to vote.

Still, National Radio should be pleased- being at the top…

I'm torn on whether to be shamed on it at all. If the social atomization that Rob is referring to above is a real thing, and an ongoing trend, aren't we proselytizing against the tide? (sound nicer than "pissing into the wind").

What…

Isn't that the reason to have children?

I've recently discovered that my own 18 year old daughter isn't enrolled to vote, and can't be arsed enrolling…

From memory, they're one of the lowest turn-out ethnic groups, along with Pasifika.

Thanks for that David, much appreciated.

Looking at it in detail, I think the results for that question are heavily influenced by, in the wake of the election as people fill out the forms, who won.

Voting won't make any difference is made up of: Labour 37%, National 14%,…

Yup. Although you would find the greatest differences in internet use within older…

Yes, a little difficult to fully apprehend without the tables, perhaps it’s the #f89828. but I’m liking your angle David. I guess the real outliers in that group are those…

I absolutely agree causality is not established. To do that you would really need to be measuring an intervention. However, in terms of what the data suggests in terms of the space in which an individual might most constructively put their efforts,…

It looks to me that, once you believe voting can make a difference, believing it more strongly doesn't make much of a difference. The larger abstainers in the bar chart is just that it is a big raw…

From a very quick reading, Putman made no particular claims about the internet, and

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/americans-are-staying-as-far-away-from-each-other-as-possible

notes:

There is, of course, one space where civic engagement is alive and well, which Cortright glosses over: the Internet.…

I haven't gone through the data, but the story I assume in lack of evidence is a mix of principled atheists who are voting at the same rate as everyone else, through to the extremely lazy.

While I have not looked at TV, but can understand the case for it doing that, I don't think Internet is having that effect (possibly because we are now in the age of community building…

Bob Putnam's Bowling Alone makes similar claims about why voter turnout is declining in the US. He says turnout decline just one…

There’s some fascinating stuff here David. I was interested by this;

Basically, the 18-26 year olds (as I divide it up in this graph) are not-voting at about twice the rate of the next cohort.

Though not a new trend it’s good to have data. It popped back into…

A fair cop :) Though it was what language was spoken at home, rather than a pure measure of fluency.

ETA: I'm not expecting you to know the answer, just bringing this to your attention, although I'm pretty sure you already knew.

Er, I did say "As a technical note, this is just playing with the survey results themselves, without working through the weightings to make them representative of the general population."

This is a Sunday Evenings stroll through the data. I…

From a biased perspective, it would also be very interesting to know whether the decision trees come out different, conditioned on what party they .... hmmmmm....felt closest to? (Can't be…

There’s your problem, right there. You’re assuming that sample is representative of the total population, but the respondents are self-selecting for being interested in filling out a 24 page questionnaire. That would, I think, give you…

https://www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/2411-political-cuts