Thread: College turns kids liberal?

Originally Posted by Sirshavesalot

The simple fact is any study or survey can be skewed to fit any point of view statistics are the least accurate of any mathematical model for determining things like this study has done.

In the end our education system lags behind 75% of the world easily, so Fox in their brilliance is more concerned about who is conservative and liberal rather then who is "well educated."

Why even watch this channel it's such a disaster.

Cheers
David

I agree the people of the US are the absolute dumbest people there are. I mean we could mess up a one car funeral. I don't how we became this way, I guess we got dumber through the years by listening to others around the world.
Gosh, I am soo retarded. Its definitely the education system. Defintely, Definitely!

LOL.... glad you realized I was just speaking about the borough of Yonkers I mean come on why the 1.75% tax on top of NYS transfer tax,doesn't make sense to me


ooooh wait for your GA, I got it now. lol

cheers
David

Originally Posted by gssixgun

It really doesn't matter what they think at 22 because at 42 reality strikes... and at 62 everything changes again...

What's that quote - If you're not a liberal when you're 20...

Glen's right people will change their perspective over time. I'm just curious how much of that perspective isn't tied into other commonalities among an age group (i.e. the types and amount of personal responsibility, social awareness, life experiences, etc.). I think that personal experiences are a larger factor in determining political opinion than level of education.

On a separate note, they did admit they couldn't comment on the methodology of the study. Maybe a lot of the students are from particularly liberal institutions/states/families. You can find 14,000 students in CA who may be decidedly liberal whereas if the study took 14,000 students from TX, it might have gone the other way. I don't know about this study, but the devil's always in the details.

We have the same thing here. The more educated a person is, the more likely they are to be socially progressive. I'm sure it's the same the world over. Get people really thinking and not just supporting talking points and there's a problem that the ultra-cons have to 'fix'.

Originally Posted by gssixgun

It really doesn't matter what they think at 22 because at 42 reality strikes... and at 62 everything changes again...

Winston Churchill (former Prime Minister of England) said something like..... "If you're not a liberal when you're young you have no heart. If you're not a conservative when you're old you have no brains."

Originally Posted by xman

The more miseducated a person is, the more likely they are to be socially progressive.

there we go

now, where were we?

BTW, anyone familiar with David Horowitz ? He wrote 'The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America', seen here . I confess that I haven't read it but saw him on C-span discussing the book and it's premise. He makes a lot of sense and perhaps the far left leaning bent of many university professors is part of the problem rather than the solution.

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

there we go

No, it's true no matter which institution is attended. I think it's because concepts of ethics, morality and social consciousness get discussed in greater detail than we in the lay-world are used to. And the profs? They are also educated so they 'suffer' the same 'bias'. It should be a wake-up call that people who are more educated than oneself and have a radically different perspective that reassessment is in order, but that never stopped a good dogmatic meme from propagating before.

Originally Posted by xman

No, it's true no matter which institution is attended. I think it's because concepts of ethics, morality and social consciousness get discussed in greater detail than we in the lay-world are used to. And the profs? They are also educated so they 'suffer' the same 'bias'. It should be a wake-up call that people who are more educated than oneself and have a radically different perspective that reassessment is in order, but that never stopped a good dogmatic meme from propagating before.

OOoooo we call that Liberal Elitism, and yes we are rather familiar with it here in the US ....

Originally Posted by xman

And the profs?

dreamers! thinkers! speculative philosophers!

or as their conservative spouses would have it, idiots