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Reports Of America's Internal Bloodlust May Be Slightly Exaggerated

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Is This Ever Acceptable?

There were a couple of ways at the question wha was designed that could have inflated the proportion of people who seemed to endorse violence. The first one was a capturing the percentage of people who didn't pick the lowest option on a scale that had multiple responses you could give. People, especially those who weren't paying close attention, would sometimes e randomly or pick the middle option. And second, defining what we meant by violence as a term. Um that makes people think of physical violence, like assault, murder, et cetera. But some people seem to be thinking of m property destruction or trespassing and other kinds of things that we wouldn't necessarily describe as violent.

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