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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (38461)	7/25/2005 8:25:20 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

that was actually such a flawed piece on so many levels... 'survey once again shows the strong correlation between education and ideology' no attribution of the 'survey' or the statistics, just his emotion driven (my opinion) interpretion of apparently imputed 'facts' and someone should really educate the good professor on the logical fallacy of correlation implying causation

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (38461)	7/25/2005 8:35:16 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Isn't it just a function of that adage: If you're 20 and are not liberal, you have no heart. If you're 40 and not conservative, you have no head. :-)

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (38461)	7/26/2005 1:39:26 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

What a bore, and where is she getting her facts? No wonder the blue ghetto America had a superior attitude with people such as her teaching them, how could they be anything but? At the risk of sounding both academic and liberal, let's consider some data. Analysis of the Bush-Gore National Election Survey once again shows the strong correlation between education and ideology. Of the population with less than a high school diploma, there are none who identify themselves as liberal (much less extremely liberal). On the other hand, 26 percent of high school dropouts see themselves as conservative. If your interest is to avoid liberals or simply maintain conservative beliefs, your safest bet is to drop out of high school. That's because completing the 12th year of schooling has a demonstrably liberalizing effect on the population. Through, perhaps, self selection or as a result of exposure to new ideas, 20 percent of those who finish the 12th grade see themselves as either slightly or moderately liberal (though well less than 1 percent identify as "extremely liberal"). But conservatism still reigns at this level; 37 percent of those with only 12 years of schooling are among the ranks of the conservative