Impeachment is not the issue voters in Iowa care about

[Dashinka 24,492]

1 minute ago, Boketto said:

I wasn’t responding to the OP and I am not interested in defending their assertion or data. 

 

While I see how someone can be well educated without going through formal education, it is highly unlikely that someone can attain advanced academic qualifications without being well educated relative to the general population. Therefore the idea that being well educated and having a high level of education can indeed go hand in hand. 

 

 

They can, and then again the may not go hand-in-hand.  Hence the perils of mixing objective rankings and subjective opinions.

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Just now, Bill & Katya said:

They can, and then again the may not go hand-in-hand.  Hence the perils of mixing objective and subjective statistics.

Yes, subjective statistics is anecdotal evidence, which is why most of the time it is not taken into account. 

[laylalex 7,284]

Why are we getting so hung up about this really picayune point? 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

everybody be arguing bout semantics 

[90DayFinancier 910]

1 minute ago, laylalex said:

Why are we getting so hung up about this really picayune point? 

"Well educated" appears to offend some.

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I think the real question is, why are both sides of the political spectrum very quick to dismiss the other side as stupid, uneducated or ill informed. It’s almost as if voters are pitted against each other by the media and special interest groups. 

[laylalex 7,284]

4 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

"Well educated" appears to offend some.

Well, I've been told that my university education doesn't mean squat on here. The university itself must think otherwise because it's constantly hitting me up for more donations!  

[Dashinka 24,492]

25 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

"Well educated" appears to offend some.

Being well educated is in no way offensive.  Mixing subject opinions with objective rankings is at least to this poorly educated person.

[Dashinka 24,492]

25 minutes ago, Boketto said:

I think the real question is, why are both sides of the political spectrum very quick to dismiss the other side as stupid, uneducated or ill informed. It’s almost as if voters are pitted against each other by the media and special interest groups. 

I think you answered your own question.

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7 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

I think you answered your own question.

Yes, but sadly, it is only one of the answers among many.

[Steeleballz 7,550]

43 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

"Well educated" appears to offend some.

 

   The trigger was perhaps the suggestion that "well educated" people voted democrat. 

[Dashinka 24,492]

2 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   The trigger was perhaps the suggestion that "well educated" people voted democrat. 

Is it a trigger if no one is offended?

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

2 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

   The trigger was perhaps the suggestion that "well educated" people voted democrat. 

I think many times they do.  Phds and what not. Academia.  However Dems are also massively over represented by the people at the other end of the spectrum and massively over represented by people on the govt teat.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

6 hours ago, Steeleballz said:

 

  How is it an assumption? Education level and political affiliation are both demographics that can be tracked.

You crack me up.  Well, not you per se, but the dems who attempt to portray themselves as more educated than republicans.  Having a degree does NOT make one more educated,  sorry to pop your bubble.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

4 hours ago, laylalex said:

But surely that's just anecdata. I went to school with a lot of people who did great, got a degree (and then sometimes more degrees or qualifications) and have had meaningful, important careers in business/law/medicine/etc. That's my anecdata, and surely it's worth as much as yours. I don't mean to be rude, because you do point out that this is a subjective/objective issue, which I completely agree with. There's always going to be someone who thinks I'm well-educated, and someone who thinks I'm not educated at all. Both could be true at the same time. But generally, I think if you ask most people what being "well-educated" means, they probably mean the person who has completed their formal education. 

 

Just my two pennies.  

I'm with Bill.  Mostly poo-poo data.  I spent most of my college years drinking. Engineering be damned, and all of that.  The vast majority of people I went to college with pissed away their education.  And today, I make more than them doing nothing related at all to my degree.

 

Degrees have NOTHING to do with education nor knowledge, ever.