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knowknowknow t1_jbnytu4 wrote

I am not a fan of these posts personally. And I say that as a left leaning person with a Masters Degree. I find them to be:
- Potentially divisive
- Ammunition for those wanting to dismiss alternative viewpoints without engaging with them
- A correlative relationship that too many people jump on as a causational relationship
This is a multi-variable relationship where many variables are here ignored, such as level of urbanisation, educational qualification requirements for large state employers, access to higher education, etc.
Too many left leaning folk will look at this and think "see, people who failed in school vote Republican" and there is simply not the available data here to draw that conclusion

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Kraz_I OP t1_jbprdey wrote

To be completely honest, I agree. I made this post entirely to dunk on the one from yesterday that got 19k upvotes despite displaying the same data in a both ugly and one dimensional way. I don’t actually care about what correlation exists and what we can learn from it (very little).

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knowknowknow t1_jbqahry wrote

An honest karma whore. Refreshing!

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Kraz_I OP t1_jbqas7t wrote

It was just an experiment to see if for dumb correlations, this sub actually cared whether the data was readable and aesthetically pleasing.

The experiment failed.

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