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[–] -2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How did you reach the conclusion that they're "heavily correlated"? From the studies you posted, I'm seeing effect sizes of r ≈ 0.2, which is usually considered a weak correlation. A change in one variable explains only about 4% of variance in the other.

An effect of this magnitude is, I suspect, consistent with left wing beliefs/ideology being transmitted at universities, whose population has already passed a selection filter on intelligence.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    left wing beliefs/ideology being transmitted at universities

    As in between peers, or do you genuinely think that universities teach socialism as an economic model that should be followed or something?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    i mean i went to a conservative college for undergrad. the idiots (not all of the students, just there were some real idiots. you've met me) at that college (compared to the peers i met at the other universities i attended) basically put the idea in my head "if that's this side, i want nothing to do with it. at least the idiots on the other side aren't as idiotic or hateful"

    i didn't ever run into the idiots at the other universities (which i guess means i must've been it), so it was fun.

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