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[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago

It might be, but I guarantee you that there's a not insignificant number of people who align with the left who are dumb as rocks and just happened to fall into that party instead.

If there's some study proving that uneducated or unintelligent people are only ever exclusively on the right and the left is just full of geniuses, I haven't seen it.

[-] rockyTron@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Yes, in general those who have attained college degrees are more likely to vote Democratic and those who have attained just a high school diploma are more likely to vote Republican. There is a clear divide where the more educated cohort of society leans Democratic.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10659129221079862

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Education isn't 1 to 1 with intelligence, it's mostly a wealth test in the US. Though I'd argue the phenomenon is more to do with being exposed to different people and wider cultural beliefs than raw intelligence, anyways.

[-] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 2 points 2 years ago

Education also matters because it teaches critical thinking and epistemology. You can be highly intelligent, but if you don't have any critical thinking skills and an understanding of the rules of evidence, you can still be easily misled and otherwise manipulated.

[-] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Orr maybe, you see what you want to see.

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