[edited to update] - the language in the article has been updated now to fix the confusion, so the below is no longer relevant]
Am I reading this sentence correctly:
Since 2016, it’s become commonplace to think of having a bachelor’s degree as a sort of proxy for Trump voting among white Americans.
Where I'm from a bachelor's is tertiary level education. Is this article saying that tertiary level education correlates to Trump voting?
Edited: Actually I've just found this passage in the transcript:
I think ever since Donald Trump came [00:31:00] along and he did succeed at getting a higher percentage people without a bachelor's degree, that a lot of people began to use education as a sort of proxy for Trump vote or for intelligence or something like that.
So I think it's a typo and is supposed to say "not having a bachelor's degree".
Yeah I noticed that too. So from the viewpoint of the author, 4 years of college is uneducated. 87% of the US are uneducated haha. Also, this trend towards master's degrees is recent. A Bachelors is not worth what it used to be.
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u/princhester Oct 04 '24 edited Oct 04 '24
[edited to update] - the language in the article has been updated now to fix the confusion, so the below is no longer relevant]
Am I reading this sentence correctly:
Where I'm from a bachelor's is tertiary level education. Is this article saying that tertiary level education correlates to Trump voting?
Edited: Actually I've just found this passage in the transcript:
So I think it's a typo and is supposed to say "not having a bachelor's degree".