How can the 20 most upvoted opinions be the 20 most controversial? If the opinio...

autodidakto on Aug 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Controversial programming opinions

How can the 20 most upvoted opinions be the 20 most controversial? If the opinions were upvoted based on "I agree" (and this is what I assume), then they would be among the least controversial to the stackexchange crowd. Maybe the middle opinions would be better.