2018’s Most & Least Educated States in America

What OP is trying to say:
“liberals are sooooooo smart and Conservatives are soooooooo dumb!!!”

What the facts say:
“More Masters in French History and Majors In Underwater Basket Weaving tend to vote Democrat and thus they think they are smarter; but in fact, with 100k in student debt and no way to pay it off, the ‘college educated Liberal’ will be more likely to serve a Conservative in a pick up truck on his way to work a Grande Latte, than the other way around”.
 
LacesOut said:
What OP is trying to say:
“liberals are sooooooo smart and Conservatives are soooooooo dumb!!!”

What the facts say:
“More Masters in French History and Majors In Underwater Basket Weaving tend to vote Democrat and thus they think they are smarter; but in fact, with 100k in student debt and no way to pay it off, the ‘college educated Liberal’ will be more likely to serve a Conservative in a pick up truck on his way to work a Grande Latte, than the other way around”.
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How do you summon an educated liberal?

"Hey, waiter"
 
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the right wing of the Republican party is more scientifically literate than liberals.




http://www.science20.com/science_20/are_you_more_scientifically_literate_tea_party_republican-122650

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What sticks out is the result for Tea Party Republicans. 19 percent identified as such and their science comprehension was higher - higher than liberals even while general Republicans were lower.


Credit and link: Cultural Cognition

Surprised? So was Kahan (and me), for an obvious reason: "I don't know a single person who identifies with the Tea Party. All my impressions come from watching cable tv --&I don't watch Fox News very often -- and reading the "paper" (New York Times daily, plus a variety of politics-focused internet sites like Huffington Post&Politico)."

His perception is shaped by the political spin of the media he enjoys. Like him, I am not sure I know a Tea Party person - he is a Yale academic in a social science field so if he works with any Republicans at all it's a surprise. In my case, I am on Team Science rather than Team Red or Blue so people may just not unleash their opinions about Obamacare on me while I am trying to enjoy a cigar.

This was a small sample, as he readily acknowledges. With double the people the distinction could fade away or even flip - and questions matter too. If there is one question about climate change and the other questions are about energy, vaccines and GMOs, the right will look far more accepting and knowledgeable of science than the left. (5) Religious, Republican Alabama has incredibly high vaccination rates while left-wing Washington state looks like anti-science Luddites.

NOTES:

(1) If everyone is anti-science, does the term "anti-science" have any meaning any more? That became a debate after "Science Left Behind" came out - a few on the left side of science media believe that it is an over-used cliché now. That they only started to think that once a whole book showed that it plagued the left also is a matter left for you to ponder.

(2) When I was a child, conservatives led all groups in science acceptance while liberals believed science was going to kill us. In the 1980s it flipped around and in the 1990s it flipped back. While in the 2000s were Republicans against science once again, the new decade has proven to be scientization of politics by Democrats in almost every area.

(3) There was a modest correlation between science comprehension and religious belief, but nothing conclusive. As I have said in the past, an atheist claiming they accept evolution is not smarter than a religious person saying they deny it. What most people really know about adaptive radiation is negligible - having faith in scientists is not intellectually superior to having faith in priests.

(4) Which doesn't survive its own asymmetry thesis, or Karl Popper's brand of it, which he called falsification. "My proposal is based upon an asymmetry between verifiability and falsifiability; an asymmetry which results from the logical form of universal statements. For these are never derivable from singular statements, but can be contradicted by singular statements." — Karl Popper, "The Logic of Scientific Discovery", p. 19

(5)The only thing that both parties are shockingly uninformed about is evolution acceptance - neither has 50% acceptance and only a few percentage points separate them. The right is more anti-science about evolution than the left, however - just not enough to declare one side truly anti-science on the matter.
Science 2.0
 
Democrats continued to draw increasing support from white college-educated voters that were once the core of the GOP. On the national House map, Democrats won white voters with a college degree by about 8 percentage points, according to the exit poll conducted for the National Election Pool — including white, college-educated women by roughly 20 points.

Republicans, however, continued to surge among the non-college-educated white voters that have powered the party in the Trump era. White voters without a college degree went for GOP candidates by nearly 25 points. (Democrats also won more than three nonwhite voters for every one that voted Republican.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/07/midterm-elections-2018-top-takeaways-970328
 
First Read: “Before Election Day 2018, Republicans held 13 of the 40 congressional districts with the highest share of adults over 25 with a college degree.”

“After the midterms, however, that’s now down to just four. And if Rep. Mimi Walters in California ultimately loses her still-uncalled reelection race, as expected, it’ll be just three Republicans remaining.”

“That surge of Democratic enthusiasm from college-educated voters was captured in the exit polls, too. Overall, college graduates broke for Democrats in the midterms by 20 percentage points, while those with no college degree were equally split. Among only white college graduates, Democrats had an advantage of 8 percentage points. And among just female while college graduates, it was 20 points.”
 
maximumpossiblesuffering said:
Athough I’m not one who spends a good part of my life looking for statistics to cherry-pick or to create statistics to promote an inaccurate conclusion, I wonder of the Leftists that actually work, work for conservative business owners or executives versus conservatives working for liberal owned or managed businesses?
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CNBC: “Among other results, this year’s midterm elections affirmed this much: in Washington, the two parties now speak for dramatically different segments of the American economy.”

“Republicans represent the smaller, fading segment, with less-educated, more-homogenous work forces reliant on traditional manufacturing, agriculture and resource extraction. Democrats represent the larger, growing one, fueled by finance, professional services and digital innovation in diverse urban areas.”
 
exGOPer said:
CNBC: “Among other results, this year’s midterm elections affirmed this much: in Washington, the two parties now speak for dramatically different segments of the American economy.”

“Republicans represent the smaller, fading segment, with less-educated, more-homogenous work forces reliant on traditional manufacturing, agriculture and resource extraction. Democrats represent the larger, growing one, fueled by finance, professional services and digital innovation in diverse urban areas.”
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All the “sectors” you mentioned about above are critical for a diversified economy for food security and economic stability.

I have a sense that creative and innovative ideas more frequently come from the Left while more reliable adherence to sound management practices is more frequently observed on the Right. For example, Uber, Facebook, and Tesla managements seem Left oriented and have made basic management mistakes to varying degrees. Interestingly, there are no top of mind prominent Right run companies I can think of right now perhaps because there is less controversy surrounding them. General Electric and Ford are examples of US companies that have heavy investments in manufacturing that are likely Conservative run. Unfortunately these companies are also seriously underperforming due to weak management structures.

In general though, I also believe that a company has its highest potential when there are both Liberal minded managers in their strong areas and Conservative managers that are in departments that benefit from their basic minsets.

At the executive level, the more the top executive utilizes their whole brain in making decisions, the better the results are in the long run.
 
maximumpossiblesuffering said:
All the “sectors” you mentioned about above are critical for a diversified economy for food security and economic stability.

I have a sense that creative and innovative ideas more frequently come from the Left while more reliable adherence to sound management practices is more frequently observed on the Right. For example, Uber, Facebook, and Tesla managements seem Left oriented and have made basic management mistakes to varying degrees. Interestingly, there are no top of mind prominent Right run companies I can think of right now perhaps because there is less controversy surrounding them. General Electric and Ford are examples of US companies that have heavy investments in manufacturing that are likely Conservative run. Unfortunately these companies are also seriously underperforming due to weak management structures.

In general though, I also believe that a company has its highest potential when there are both Liberal minded managers in their strong areas and Conservative managers that are in departments that benefit from their basic minsets.

At the executive level, the more the top executive utilizes their whole brain in making decisions, the better the results are in the long run.
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When you need cunning, calculating and unethical business decisions to make, you hire a conservative.

When you need innovation, value and creativity, you hire a liberal.
 
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