You know one thing about Sam. Guess the rest, the way we all quietly do, then meet the real people who share Sam's first view.
Sam wants much tougher limits on immigration.
That is the only thing you knowWhere do you think Sam stands?
Go with your gut on each one.
Here is how real people who want tougher immigration limits actually split on each thing you guessed.
This is the uncomfortable finding at the heart of the article. Across the public, knowing one of someone's positions predicts the others far more weakly than the tidy left-right story implies. Most people simply do not bundle their views into a neat package (Converse, 1964; Kinder and Kalmoe, 2017).
Where coherence does show up, it is often borrowed from a party or group rather than reasoned out (Cohen, 2003), and the sharpest line between the camps turns out to be how much they dislike each other, not how far apart they sit on the issues (Iyengar, Sood and Lelkes, 2012).
Splits are illustrative of the real pattern (low ideological constraint), not figures from one survey.