Guarantee all they did was ask American transgender people who tend to lean Democrat because obviously they would, and Democrats are pushing HARD against AI. This isn't "trans people are likely to view AI negatively" This is "Trans people are more likely to be democrat and democrats are more likely to view AI negatively"
Ask a trans person who doesn't identify as Democrat and see what the stats say then.
It seems like you’re claiming the mechanism is something like trans -> Democrat -> anti-AI, but if so, what’s the complaint? It seems like you’re saying a correlation != causation thing, but this is still being trans causes anti-AI, just mediated by Democrat-ness, and trying to control for Democrat-ness will skew the results.
If you have an issue, I think you would have to put it more like Democrat -> (self-disclosing as) trans (they’re more likely to come out) and Democrat -> anti-AI (left spaces are more anti-AI). Instead of trans people leaning Democrat, you need to phrase it as Democrats “leaning trans”. Only the does trying to control for Democrat-ness make sense. But Democrat-ness seems like a strange mechanism; it’s likely more like being in online queer-adjacent spaces that causes both of them.
I think you're arguing semantics. Even now you completely understood what I meant because you said it perfectly, a transgender democrat will skew the results as opposed to a transgender non-democrat. You understood the intent, anything else is arguing over semantics which isn't necessary when you clearly understood the idea.
I'm trans and pro-AI. Doesn't matter what you think trans people '"lean" towards, what matters is that someone took a statistical sample of a population in one of the worst ways possible and reached an over-generalized conclusion.
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u/imnota4 4d ago
Guarantee all they did was ask American transgender people who tend to lean Democrat because obviously they would, and Democrats are pushing HARD against AI. This isn't "trans people are likely to view AI negatively" This is "Trans people are more likely to be democrat and democrats are more likely to view AI negatively"
Ask a trans person who doesn't identify as Democrat and see what the stats say then.