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IIsikson t1_jbmepco wrote

God (is not real) I love these posts, can't wait to read all the uneducated people talk about how education is for dumb people.

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SafeExpress3210 t1_jbmfbvr wrote

What an interesting looking graph. I have never seen anything like it. It does not appear to be highly intuitive. Certainly, creative though!

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Comfortable-Potato79 t1_jbmh338 wrote

Data point for DC likely has very high leverage. How would the linear parameters and R squared values look if you exclude DC? What would that imply?

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Dektivac t1_jbmm253 wrote

What a confused way to say: "the more you know the more you are a democrat".

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Kraz_I OP t1_jbmml4m wrote

Replying to Takemytwocent5 (#2,197,780)

For what it's worth, North Dakota and Wyoming have some of the highest average incomes, but are the reddest with the least education.

It's probably got more to do with rural vs. urban area. There's a lot of rich farmers in the midwest with not much education.

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PredictorX1 t1_jbmnc30 wrote

Was that regression line fit weighted by population?

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Kraz_I OP t1_jbmob6f wrote

Replying to PredictorX1 (#2,198,180)

No. Regardless of the state populations, if the line is a perfect fit, then the whole US population would be directly on the line. The entire US would have a partisan lean of 0 (by definition) and according to the source has a bachelors degree attainment of 32.9%, which is very close to the line but slightly above it.

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craftworkbench t1_jbn5nke wrote

Interesting data but damn near impossible to read some of those state initials...

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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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ColonelStoic t1_jbon09x wrote

The surge of these graphs has been strange. As someone who is currently pursuing an engineering PhD, I can confidently say that a degree has nothing to do with intelligence. There is no correlation between higher education implying intelligence and the party you vote for.

Id argue that it most definitely depends on what you’re majoring in , and if the industry you work for requires higher education. I think it’s safe to say that most business/finance/economics departments consist of right-leaning males, as do agricultural departments. Most liberal arts, software engineering, and environment departments would consist of left leaning males and females.

These posts hide way too much of what really goes on.

Just to add, my engineering department consists of a very even split between left and right, although most of us just really don’t give a damn in general.

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Kraz_I OP t1_jbprdey wrote

Replying to knowknowknow (#2,199,805)

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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Kraz_I OP t1_jbprvzc wrote

Replying to ColonelStoic (#2,200,917)

I made this graph entirely to dunk on the one from yesterday that was both one dimensional and ugly. They even displayed it as a bar graph! I also stole the same data sources.

My experiment failed though, not many people seemed to like this post.

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