Re:Corona Simulator
by glaive123 on Saturday March 14, 2020 @11:22PM
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The people who don't understand this stuff, aren't failing to understand it because no one wrote about it. It's because they are not white collar or college graduates and are not likely to read The Washington Post in the first place. My father is the perfect example of this. He's dyslexic and so he struggles to read detailed journalism and gets all of his information from cable TV news like Fox News.
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Re:Corona Simulator
by maxerickson on Sunday March 15, 2020 @12:34AM
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There's really not a 1:1 relationship between "college" and "white collar", and "curiosity".
Plenty of people with their fancy college degree are incurious, and plenty of people that barely made it out of high school are curious.
It's an appealing shorthand, but it's not a great one.
Obviously there's not a 1:1 relationship. And I never made such claim. I am saying that the people who read detailed journalism tend to have a higher reading level, e.g. they work in a job where reading and analysis is a daily part of their work, this would be considered white collar.
Please don't put words in my mouth when I never said there was a 1:1 relationship.