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This is the best explanation of that

Posted: Nov 26, 2012

I knew there wasn't quite something right about that poll that someone felt they needed to post it a second time below. Here is by far the best summary of what exactly that means.

http://yardsaleofthemind.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/1571/

Oh, and please don't even get me started on any bull about my website is better than your website. Especially when that chart below that someone posted came from "Happy Place" and was of someone's opinion. The article I am posting actually breaks it down into "individuals", since individuals voted and not "states". Also the fact that the only thing that graph shows is an assumption that "college educated" = "smart", when there are many more smart individuals who decided not to have mommy and daddy pay for a college degree.

Not only is the article accurate, but also the comment made by a poster below that who said - "If the correlation is true – that getting a college degree correlates positively with voting Democrat – and one feels compelled to make a chart out of it, such a chart would be a graph showing how college educated people actually voted. Not presenting that data, but rather presenting data that does not in any way support the the assertion, yet making the claim anyway – that is questionable to beyond the point of dishonesty. The nicest thing one could say is that the person putting together the chart is an ignoramus. and second, historically, college educated men are more likely to vote Republican than Democrat, and college educated women have recently (like, in the last decade or so) flipped to voting Democrat. This election? Unclear."

So the truth still remains that the states that voted for Obama are the richer states where parents can afford to send their kids to those colleges. The fact still lies that the chart some unknown person dreamed up does not actually give an accurate account of smart/dumb voters. Besides there are many intelligent people in red states who own their own businesses and some do even have degrees who differ with the dumb one who dreamt up that little graph.

I did however particulary enjoy the photograph they included of Obama voters ;-)

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the chart correlates facts, not a "poll" - smart person

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the validity of the chart is a personal opinion. The chart is correct more "educated states" voted for Obama, but your statement that Obama states are richer and people can afford college is wrong. I live in an "Obama state" (thank goodness) and very few of my family, myself included, had family money to support our educations. I worked and paid off loans to go to college. I went to an excellent public school for precollege,so your assumption is false.

also noticed in this "chart".... - nm

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that the "best educated" side all came from east coast and eastern states, while all of the "least educated" came from the southern states. Plenty of racial implications here, as well as stereotyping and profiling labels. besides that....education does not always = "smart".

who is doing the stereotyping and profiling? - it's DATA

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Numbers don't do profiling. We all know that certain parts of the country are wealthier than others, present more opportunity than others, produce more scholars than others. The important part is to try to make these opportunities available for everyone. That's less likely to happen if citizens think that the presentation of data is some kind of plot.

Education has a strong correlation with liberality--people don't - become liberals, just more liberal comparatively.

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I understand why you wouldn't like this, but it's the simple truth. Conversely, less education is associated with greater conservatism. A lot of posts on this board are immediate clues to low education levels because you wouldn't get passing grades in college if you use Breitbart and Fox as sources and you'd have learned not to use them at all. You have to be able to support your arguments with true facts.

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