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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (2253)	7/28/2005 3:05:36 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 540924

Not only is there the issue of the higher income people with advanced degrees being more conservative, than the general run of those with advanced degrees, thus providing something of an exception to the rule. There is also the question of what is the source of the more liberal attitudes of those with more education. Several possibilities spring to mind. 1 - That being more knowledgeable and educated makes you more liberal. Liberals probably love this one but I don't agree with it. 2 - That the educators and educational institutions manage to spread their liberal biases on those who spend a lot of time getting educated in these institutions. I think this is definitely part of it, but I don't think it can be the whole story. 3 - That people with liberal tendencies are more likely to want to spend a lot of time getting an advanced formal education. 4 - That people with liberal tendencies are more likely to want to go in to certain fields, and that these fields require a high degree of formal education. For example if conservatives are more likely to want to become business executives or entrepreneurs and liberal people are more likely to become professors, than liberal people are more likely to need, and thus achieve, higher levels of formal education. This is very similar to 3, but it isn't exactly the same. 3 Would be more that being liberal intrinsically causes you to want to be educated. 4 is that being liberal predisposes you to jobs that require an extensive formal education. If 3 is a factor at all, I think it is much smaller than 4, which may be one of the larger factors. Tim