On college majors and voting preferences
(media.communities.win)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (33)
sorted by:
The math is wrong. Reading this, I thought something was off, and I was right. I found the source. The chart above show's the top 6 majors for bachelor's degrees. Even then, his numbers are wrong. The actual numbers are:
These account for 74% of bachelor's degrees issued 2018-2019.
His premise that college graduates are evenly split is wrong too. Pew Research found that college graduates skew democratic. My calculations say 59% of college graduates are Democrats.
I found this web site. that lists majors by political leaning. No idea where the numbers come from, but presumably they have a basis other than an assumption.
So let's begin again. We assume social science, psychology, communications & journalism, visual & performing arts, and education are more about political indoctrination than anything else. These make up 27% of college grads. Using the numbers provided above, I find that ~23.3% of college grads are Democrats and have these majors. If we take these majors out, we get 48.9% Democrats. So, without these majors, we get a roughly even number of Democrats and Republicans.
The assumption is that the remainder follow a roughly similar split - they're unlabeled, so assuming the same valid-fake distribution as the rest of the dataset is the best we can do.
Presumably. The proportions aren't listed, though, and they don't map cleanly to the other dataset.
That's not right. The 2016 election, in which graduates (docs excluded, since we're looking at bach degree stats, and they're negligible in number regardless) skewed more left-wing than usual, was still split 49-45, with 'some college' splitting 43-53 in the other direction.