Speaker: What we think and how we vote
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The data for the 2014 New Zealand Election Survey was recently released for the general public to make of it what they will, which in the modern world of home data analysis is like parachuting a gazelle into a pride of lions.
One thing I decided to explore is how representative the ideas of "Left" and "Right" are in the New Zealand of today. They are terms that get bandied around, and people and parties get pinned into place with, but do they actually matter?
One of the questions in the survey asks people to rate themselves on a spectrum…