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> 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 educate
by 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 agotomato tomato
- bumby 4y agoTomato potato You might be confusing correlation as something more substantive
- culi 4y agothe 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 agoYou 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 agoGroup 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 agoNow 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).