From the numbers for men and women separately, I gather that a lot of the women marry moderates (explicitly not included). Women marrying slightly older men skews the comparisons a bit.
The author pointed out that the men skew too because they often have children later; or have ones they don’t know about, which is not usually the case for women.
I first misread this graph to be suggesting that conservative children are meaner, on average. That's not what it says.
Some years ago, IIRC, I came across a study in a Berkely CA preschool, which claimed to have results to show that children who became Republican were meaner than children who became Democrat. Maybe I should look for it.
I would be interested in whether their definition of "meaner" was behavior or attitudes, specifically political attitudes. Words are violence, after all.
From the numbers for men and women separately, I gather that a lot of the women marry moderates (explicitly not included). Women marrying slightly older men skews the comparisons a bit.
ReplyDeleteThe author pointed out that the men skew too because they often have children later; or have ones they don’t know about, which is not usually the case for women.
DeleteI first misread this graph to be suggesting that conservative children are meaner, on average. That's not what it says.
ReplyDeleteSome years ago, IIRC, I came across a study in a Berkely CA preschool, which claimed to have results to show that children who became Republican were meaner than children who became Democrat. Maybe I should look for it.
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I would be interested in whether their definition of "meaner" was behavior or attitudes, specifically political attitudes. Words are violence, after all.
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