When we say 'Academia has a bias to the Left', this is what we mean. https://amp.businessinsider.com/charts-show-the-political-bias-of-each-profession-2014-11 …pic.twitter.com/15ZzlOjpKa
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That's not an interpretation. That's a fact. Most people in academia (aka most people with enough education to earn a PhD) identify as liberal. Interpretation by definition means to explain. Merely saying 2 things are correlated doesn't explain anything.
Mentioning a misleading correlation invites a false causal interpretation.
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Only if you're scientifically ignorant. Anyone educated in the basics of science knows that correlation doesn't equal causation and therefore to say a correlation can be misleading is nonsensical.
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So hockey talent correlates to a bisection of Canadianness and Whiteness, simply by virtue of occupancy? Interesting slant on correlation.
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Geoffrey Miller FTW
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The personal attribute most strongly correlated with interest in higher education, and most predictive of post-grad degrees, openness to experience, is also the attribute most strongly correlated with liberal social views.
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I didn't say correlations are meaningless. But the only thing correlations do is tell us that more research needs to be done to find out if one of the correlations caused the other. But correlations certainly aren't descriptive. Causations are descriptive.
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As proven by earlier statement? But perhaps it WASN'T invited. Perhaps it just invited itself? Wouldn't be the first time!
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Hard to know if it's actually misleading. Assuming it is or is not risks error, unless you're aware of things that should push us to "no", or alternatively are just criticising assuming it is and are not asserting it is not.
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