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<blockquote data-quote="CAustinIV" data-source="post: 2426622" data-attributes="member: 809581">A previous question made me think that the sort of person who answers &quot;no&quot; or &quot;very few&quot; to the first question is likely to answer the same to the second.The drug thing is a well-understood phenomenon - while a large portion of the population uses illegal drugs, the population is fairly well divided into people who know about it, and people who don&#039;t.&nbsp; That&#039;s because people have to be honest and open with you in order for you to know about it - meaning that if you&#039;re the sort of person who thinks that anyone who smokes pot is a dirtbag loser, your pot-smoking friends probably haven&#039;t clued you in that they occasionally indulge, because they know how you&#039;ll react.In a previous question, a person asked how many unemployed people everyone knew - and in an economy where it&#039;s well-known that over 1 in 10 are unemployed and many more are underemployed, several people said they knew no unemployed people or very few, and insisted that they were all deadbeats who weren&#039;t even trying to find</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CAustinIV, post: 2426622, member: 809581"] A previous question made me think that the sort of person who answers "no" or "very few" to the first question is likely to answer the same to the second. The drug thing is a well-understood phenomenon - while a large portion of the population uses illegal drugs, the population is fairly well divided into people who know about it, and people who don't. That's because people have to be honest and open with you in order for you to know about it - meaning that if you're the sort of person who thinks that anyone who smokes pot is a dirtbag loser, your pot-smoking friends probably haven't clued you in that they occasionally indulge, because they know how you'll react. In a previous question, a person asked how many unemployed people everyone knew - and in an economy where it's well-known that over 1 in 10 are unemployed and many more are underemployed, several people said they knew no unemployed people or very few, and insisted that they were all deadbeats who weren't even trying to find [/QUOTE]

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