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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by linkregister on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @08:27PM (#12916837)
The notion that a college education bestows upon the recipient liberal viewpoints is absolute rubbish. Various universities have different rates of liberalism/conservatism; major programs within universities also have great disparities.

This also fails to address the survivor's bias that perhaps those who actually can enter college may already be predisposed to liberalism due to locality and family circumstances.

To abuse the old HN gripe, correlation doesn't imply causation.

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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by pmarreck on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @09:21PM (#12917151)
> The notion that a college education bestows upon the recipient liberal viewpoints is absolute rubbish.

Do you have evidence to support that? Because here is mine: Exit polling for the most recent election:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/el...

Scroll down to the "Education" and especially the "Education by Race (white)" sections.

Peripherally (I call it that because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence), look at the "Religion" section, protestant christians vs. "none".

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Re:Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf] by linkregister on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:23PM (#12922805)
You have somewhat established correlation. Great!

You haven't answered the actual point of my argument, which is "college degrees don't necessarily bestow liberal viewpoints."

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