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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, in general those who have attained college degrees are more likely to vote Democratic and those who have attained just a high school diploma are more likely to vote Republican. There is a clear divide where the more educated cohort of society leans Democratic.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10659129221079862

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Education isn't 1 to 1 with intelligence, it's mostly a wealth test in the US. Though I'd argue the phenomenon is more to do with being exposed to different people and wider cultural beliefs than raw intelligence, anyways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Education also matters because it teaches critical thinking and epistemology. You can be highly intelligent, but if you don't have any critical thinking skills and an understanding of the rules of evidence, you can still be easily misled and otherwise manipulated.