Nancy
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Nancy is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 08, 2022 and June 06, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “If we don’t want to use Nancy in particular as a lodestar”; “Nancy writes : I’m a department chair at a state university”. It most often appears alongside 538, Abraham Lincoln, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: June 08, 2022
- Last seen: June 06, 2023
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The idea is: you know those attack adds which say things like “Joe Schmoe is a dangerously extreme Democrat, he votes with Nancy Pelosi 97% of the time”? These encode an important truth: you can figure out how far right or left someone is by observing how often their vote correlates with other people’s. If we don’t want to use Nancy in particular as a lodestar, we can just correlate how often every member of Congress votes with every other member of Congress and do a dimensional analysis on the result. This finds that the pattern is usually explicable by one dimension, which correlates with our traditional left-right axis. NOMINATE starts by ranking legislators on this axis. That is, legislators form two natural clusters that tend to vote together; the more often you vote the same way as members of the left-wing cluster, the more left-wing you are.