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Is Stephen Harper's Too Extreme?

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During his time in office, Canada dropped to number 23 on the United Nation’s gender inequality global rank (McLeod, 2015). So, logically this leads one to ask: Could this anti-Harper sentiment be due in part to a drop in support from women, who possibly find him too extreme? The theory that this paper advances is that when politicians take such drastic and provocative stances, it results in scores of people thinking that they are too extreme, which ultimately gives way to strong sentiments, like “Anyone but Harper”. To test this theory, this essay will investigate the following hypothesis: women are more likely to think that Stephen Harper is too extreme, in comparison to men. The resultant null hypothesis is that one’s gender is unrelated
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