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== Benefits & remarks ==
One major benefit of this approach is that we now have a direct way to embed importance into our model of voters, as well as a notion of "fuzziness" to the opinions. The width of the distribution can be used as a proxy for a voter's willingness to compromise or make sacrifices on an issue.
A low-importance opinion is a wider distribution, which means it has a smaller distance to other opinions than a sharp one. So a voter with a low-importance on an issue effectively sees that axis as "compressed", that is, distances are shorter along that axis. On the other hand, if a voter has a high importance on an issue they will perceive differences more aggressively, making them see that axis as "stretched", that is, the distances are perceived as larger.
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