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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Bill who wrote (52633)10/31/2006 8:31:47 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
Bill -

You said that the more informed a person is, the more likely he is to be a conservative. For the outlets you mentioned, and the sources from The News Hour to Local News, the percentage of conservatives is between 22% and 38%. Therefore, a majority of the people using those sources are NOT conservatives. Thus, your statement that they are more likely to be conservative is incorrect.

If you had said that based on these numbers, the better informed a person is, the more likely he is to be conservative than liberal, you'd have been correct, but you'd still have been missing the real message in the data.

What the numbers really show is that better informed people are slightly more likely be moderate than they are to be either conservative or liberal.

- Allen
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