• Sergio@piefed.social
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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.