Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Pauline Kael effect

Cognitive segregation reified in a Tweet! Also known as the Pauline Kael effect: "How can Nixon have won?" she said in 1968. "Nobody I know voted for him." She was a film critic for the New Yorker. - Charles Murray @charlesmurray
a few relevant links:
. Pauline Kael quotes
. The Actual Pauline Kael Quote—Not As Bad, and Worse by John Podhoretz in Commentary
. The Fraudulent Factoid That Refuses to Die

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