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This is pretty interesting in light of yesterday's post. There's an inverse correlation between the left-wingness of the colleges in each region and growth in applications. x.com/dkthomp/status…
This is pretty interesting in light of yesterday's post. There's an inverse correlation between the left-wingness of the colleges in each region and growth in applications. x.com/dkthomp/status…
A lot of students just want to go to college to drink beer, hook up, go to football games, and emerge with a degree that will give them gainful employment. They far, far outnumber the political activist types. And they're voting with their feet, it looks like.
@NateSilver538 I assume the southwestern region includes CA? If so it makes sense given CA’s huge population and excellent, comparatively cheap state schools. Wouldn’t surprise me if more people were opting for the UC/CSU over expensive out of state schools.
@NateSilver538 NATE GO BACK TO ANY SCHOOL. Stop for 1 second and ask yourself what a chart showing a total of 100K applicants and “New England” is showing. Could it possibly be all college applicants to New England schools? No it could not. Yale and Harvard alone are 100K.
@NateSilver538 Probably has nothing to do with weather and athletics.
@NateSilver538 Why do I keep having to correct this dude's stats homework? x.com/carwilbj/statu…
@NateSilver538 Why do I keep having to correct this dude's stats homework? x.com/carwilbj/statu…
@NateSilver538 Can some of that be attributed to population migration? Students usually apply close to where they live. The Southwest is growing in population
@NateSilver538 gut screams correlation without causation. 10,000 co-factors here that are all also correlated. I'd guess annual tutition way more than location, but also 500 other factors and also an unbelievably small sample size here?
@NateSilver538 what if "left-wing[ed]ness" is deliberately seeking to change the southwest?