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Percent age 25+ with Bachelor's degree or higher
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this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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Why only count people older than 25?
Because otherwise the data would be artificially lower in areas with more children.
For example, imagine a suburb in Utah filled with college educated software engineers with big Mormon families. If you count the kids, it might look like people there don't have degrees.
Doesn't a bachelor's take 4-5 years, with people starting around 18-19? I guess we're only talking about a year or two so the higher age is to help cut down on the noise (doubt there's many people with bachelor's dying before 25 to skew the results)
21-22 is the average age to complete a bachelor's degree, so I'd guess - other than eliminating children, who couldn't possibly have gotten degrees yet - just evening out the data a bit to account for later starters or longer programs? They probably had a target 90% of degree-receivers or something like that
Below 25 it depends on how fast you finish your studies whether you own a bachelor's degree yet or not.
It filters out college towns with large masters and doctorate programs.
That's a good point, need to control for students. Wouldn't 25 year olds still be in school for their doctorates though?
Yes, I think that's the point
they skew the numbers upwards.
Because my toddler shouldn't affect this map