I also had a brief question regarding demographics and political conservatism, as I didn't see ethicnity/race in the demographics and wondered if social equity may be a confounding or mediating variable here.
Great work, Matt! I do have a question about measurement: what did you use to measure conservatism?
I ask because I did some back-of-envelope calculations on the correlations between the demographic correlations in the last table presented. They all made sense, except for r(gender, conservatism):
r of r's
gender, age -0.12
gender, edu -0.33
gender, cons 0.56
edu, age 0.29
edu, cons -0.45
cons, age 0.49
There's a million different reasons a high r(gender, cons) could exist, but I'm always interested in looking at the instrument before I look at the band, so to speak!
This was wonderfully interesting.
I also had a brief question regarding demographics and political conservatism, as I didn't see ethicnity/race in the demographics and wondered if social equity may be a confounding or mediating variable here.
Great work, Matt! I do have a question about measurement: what did you use to measure conservatism?
I ask because I did some back-of-envelope calculations on the correlations between the demographic correlations in the last table presented. They all made sense, except for r(gender, conservatism):
r of r's
gender, age -0.12
gender, edu -0.33
gender, cons 0.56
edu, age 0.29
edu, cons -0.45
cons, age 0.49
There's a million different reasons a high r(gender, cons) could exist, but I'm always interested in looking at the instrument before I look at the band, so to speak!