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How the audiences of news sources differ in their levels of education (www.pewresearch.org)
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Source: Pew Research Center

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[–] 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Kind of a weird graph....

  • the "percentage of US adults who has a college degree" is on a scale of all US adults
  • the "percentage of US adults who get their news from a given source" is on a scale of all US adults with college degrees

But they're shown on the same bar graph, which implies they're shown on the same scale. Right? or am I misreading this?

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    It's not "what % of college graduates get their news from this source", it's "what % of adults that get their news from this source have a college degree"

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    OK you're right. the scales are:

    • on a scale of all US adults, the percentage who have a college degree
    • on a scale of all readers who primarily get their news from (given magazine), the percentage who have a college degree

    So the scales are still different.

    I'm guessing they'd make an argument that: "If the college graduate readership were distributed evenly across all news sources, then (given magazine) would have (the percentage of all US adults who have a college degree)." But the labels don't say that, which is why it is confusing.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    OK you're right. the scales are:

    • on a scale of all US adults, the percentage who have a college degree
    • on a scale of all readers who primarily get their news from (given magazine), the percentage who have a college degree

    So the scales are still different.

    I'm guessing they'd make an argument that: "If the college graduate readership were distributed evenly across all news sources, then (given magazine) would have (the percentage of all US adults who have a college degree)." But the labels don't say that, which is why it is confusing.

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