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... in muslims who sympathize with jihadist terror groups and play a computer game. No control group.

Btw its scary that they asked 500 morrocan muslims in Spain and were able to recruit 38 extremists.

There is an important detail, those 500 were selected specifically from groups potentially suffering from social exclusion.

And not from 500 "randomly drawn" subjects from a bigger group.

Not surprising. 18% of the US population thinks the sun rotates around the earth.

And would you classify that 18% as astrologically extremist or poorly educated?

iirc at least 4% of those are trolls - I read about that on HN the other day, forgot what the effect was called and can't find it in my history. But the gist of it is that these numbers are done via polls online and the statistics are poisoned by people filling stuff like "I believe in flat earth" for the lulz.

Lizardman constant. https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...

Do they also say they want to kill everyone who thinks otherwise? I don't like these trivializations, because these moroccan men CAN be helped in most cases, but if we consider them as dumb and deplorable we 're doing the opposite.

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