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# Liberals, again
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/liberals-again/
- Published: 2007-10-15T00:01:20.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:30:42.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Social, UX

So here is a chart showing the choices made by those of my Facebook ‘friends’ who chose to disclose political preferences in their profiles.  
![liberals.png](https://www.lorcandempsey.net/content/images/wordpress/lorcan/liberals.png)  
As [I suggested](https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001454.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) the other day one would expect a ‘liberal’ emphasis in the library community. Although I wonder what the distribution is among those who chose not to disclose.  
In this context, I was interested to read [this post](https://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/10/is-academia-serious-about-diversity.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net) by Greg Mankiw earlier in the week.  
The chart is generated by the Socialistics application. Given its name, maybe it puts a finger on the scales 😉  
Socialistics is a creation of Techenlightenment, which appears to exist to create Facebook applications:

> **Techlightenment** is a brand of **D.sruptive Limited**, an innovations house. We don’t only build application for client, but we implement our own thinking into the technology we build so as to accelerate understanding of the marketplace. A recent example was [Socialistics](https://apps.facebook.com/socialistics?ref=lorcandempsey.net), which received rapid critical acclaim. This wasn’t simply an application, but a method of **understanding social relationships.** \[[Techlightenment: an enlightened approach to technology](https://www.techlightenment.com/aboutus.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]