{"id":39934,"date":"2011-04-22T09:25:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T17:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=11146"},"modified":"2011-04-22T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T17:25:05","slug":"political-moderation-education-and-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/22\/political-moderation-education-and-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Political moderation, education, and intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/2011\/04\/the-disappearing-center\/\">seeing this post up<\/a> on how high information levels and education may lead to political polarization, I wanted to revisit the <a href=\"http:\/\/sda.berkeley.edu\/cgi-bin\/hsda?harcsda+gss10\">GSS<\/a> data on political moderation and independence in light of educational attainment and intelligence. For the later I used the proxy of a score on a vocabulary test which has a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/05\/wordsum-iq\/\">0.70 correlation with general intelligence<\/a>. My question was this: <b>what are the different effects of intelligence and education on ideology and partisanship?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To answer this question I looked at two response variables, POLVIEWS and PARTYID, which measure ideology from very liberal to very conservative and partisanship from strong Democrat to strong Republican. I amalgamated &#8220;leaners&#8221; so that in the middle I had moderates and independents left. For the vocab test I used WORDSUM. The scores have a value from 0 to 10, out of 10. I combined the 0-4 interval because the sample size there was small. Finally, <b>I limited the sample to non-Hispanic whites after the year 2000 to eliminate some background confounds<\/b> (e.g., minorities tend to be way more Democratic, all things equal).<\/p>\n<p>I generated some area graphs. First, I looked at proportions of each ideology or party in a particular category. For example, &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/LrdKxjs9NIA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing this post up on how high information levels and education may lead to political polarization, I wanted to revisit the GSS data on political moderation and independence in light of educational attainment and intelligence. For the later I us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40073,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39934\/revisions\/40073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}