• Sergio@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    Kind of a weird graph…

    • the “percentage of US adults who has a college degree” is on a scale of all US adults
    • the “percentage of US adults who get their news from a given source” is on a scale of all US adults with college degrees

    But they’re shown on the same bar graph, which implies they’re shown on the same scale. Right? or am I misreading this?

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      5 hours ago

      is on a scale of all US adults with college degrees

      no, “Among US adults who regularly get news from ____, % who hav ea bachelor’s degree or more,” not all US adults with a degree, just all adults

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        4 hours ago

        OK you’re right. the scales are:

        • on a scale of all US adults, the percentage who have a college degree
        • on a scale of all readers who primarily get their news from (given magazine), the percentage who have a college degree

        So the scales are still different.

        I’m guessing they’d make an argument that: “If the college graduate readership were distributed evenly across all news sources, then (given magazine) would have (the percentage of all US adults who have a college degree).” But the labels don’t say that, which is why it is confusing.