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One of the primary strategies activists have managed to successfully deploy against those groups is through targeting advertisers. Also most tech workers are co

by culi 4y ago

One of the primary strategies activists have managed to successfully deploy against those groups is through targeting advertisers. Also most tech workers are college educated which is a demographic that (increasingly) supports gun control/does not like the NRA

lockhouse 4y ago
> Also most tech workers are college educated which is a demographic that (increasingly) supports gun control/does not like the NRA It's less a college educated versus not and more an urban versus rural issue.
- krapp 4y ago
  >It's less a college educated versus not and more an urban versus rural issue. The general mistrust of academia, liberal arts and mainstream science amongst the rural populace suggests those issues overlap quite a bit.
- culi 4y ago
  tomato tomato
  - bumby 4y ago
    Tomato potato You might be confusing correlation as something more substantive
    - culi 4y ago
      the point is there's not really a way for us to tell which is the "substance". It's all just correlations and it's all just a matter of what aspect you choose to highlight
      - bumby 4y ago
        You don’t think you can isolate variables and analyze effects? For example, you can’t study the opinions of people with high education who live in rural areas?
        AdamJacobMuller 4y ago
        Group A: College Educated + Urban Group B: College Educated + Rural Group C: No post-secondary + Urban Group D: No post-secondary + Rural Fairly simple analysis to do, and I suspect (as I think you do) that the trend will align with a split between A/D vs B/C not A/B vs C/D.
        bumby 4y ago
        Now do it for all the other confounding variables. This is why social science is hard and requires a lot of statistical analysis. I'm not making any claims one way or another. All I'm saying is knee-jerk assumptions based on a simplified mental model probably isn't a good idea unless you have the data to back it up. (Especially true on complex systems like human value systems).

by culi 4y ago

lockhouse 4y ago

> Also most tech workers are college educated which is a demographic that (increasingly) supports gun control/does not like the NRA It's less a college educated versus not and more an urban versus rural issue.

krapp 4y ago
>It's less a college educated versus not and more an urban versus rural issue. The general mistrust of academia, liberal arts and mainstream science amongst the rural populace suggests those issues overlap quite a bit.
culi 4y ago
tomato tomato
- bumby 4y ago
  Tomato potato You might be confusing correlation as something more substantive
  - culi 4y ago
    the point is there's not really a way for us to tell which is the "substance". It's all just correlations and it's all just a matter of what aspect you choose to highlight
    - bumby 4y ago
      You don’t think you can isolate variables and analyze effects? For example, you can’t study the opinions of people with high education who live in rural areas?
      - AdamJacobMuller 4y ago
        Group A: College Educated + Urban Group B: College Educated + Rural Group C: No post-secondary + Urban Group D: No post-secondary + Rural Fairly simple analysis to do, and I suspect (as I think you do) that the trend will align with a split between A/D vs B/C not A/B vs C/D.
        bumby 4y ago
        Now do it for all the other confounding variables. This is why social science is hard and requires a lot of statistical analysis. I'm not making any claims one way or another. All I'm saying is knee-jerk assumptions based on a simplified mental model probably isn't a good idea unless you have the data to back it up. (Especially true on complex systems like human value systems).