More dataisdepressing than dataisbeautiful

  • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    The good news is that almost universally, women vote in greater numbers than me. So on average its still breaking to the left.

    • golli@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      Only if the trend between women getting more liberal and men getting more conservative cancel out. If you have a graph like South Korea where young women vote moderately more liberal, but young men become drastically more conservative, then it still results in an overall shift towards conservative values.

      • BluesF@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Does it, though? If I lean a little bit left I’m going to vote left, whereas if I lean a lot left then… I’m still going to vote left (or vice versa). Granted, I might vote for a more fringe party then further I lean, but I don’t think a greater divide will reflect in the number of votes particularly.

        • golli@lemm.ee
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          1 month ago

          Yes, but the way i read the chart it doesn’t differentiate between degrees of ideology; Just a binary “what percentage of the age group votes liberal vs conservative”. So at 0 there is a 50/50 there are equally as many liberals as conservatives, but it doesn’t provide any information how strong this ideological views are.