In an age of extremes, most people are really pretty moderate

A major YouGov survey shows that extremists are not as prevalent as you might think

It is not hard to scroll through a huge global opinion survey and find the outliers. They are many and compelling: vaccine-doubters, conspiracy theorists, arch-pessimists and even people who approve of Theresa May.

The danger however is that these newspoints can give us a certain impression about the world: that outliers are the norm, that eccentrics are far more prevalent than they actually are.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2Je1GUM
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