One not-mentioned potential factor is women experiencing discrimination in STEM fields, and becoming more liberal as a result. "Women in [technical field]" groups tend to be large and active, and to promote a narrative of solidarity which many people find compelling.
Yes I think this could be plausible explanation. I wish the fire dataset had sexism questions to look at. There are some questions about mental health whether people report feeling lonely, overwhelmed, depressed, etc. that I intend to explore more at a future date, but those aren’t (directly at least) related to sexism.
Amazing and unexpected data! Comparing the larger shift in numbers for BYU overall by year with the smaller shift for LDS at BYU, can I conclude that the non-LDS at BYU are shifting Republican to Democrat at a much higher rate than the LDS students?
That's a good call out! I think it's the case, but our sample size for nonmormon BYU students is only 30. So we likely aren't going to find any statistically meaningful results there. I am away from my laptop for the weekend, but will double check when I'm back online early next week 🙂
Love the scrambling of the standard narratives.
One not-mentioned potential factor is women experiencing discrimination in STEM fields, and becoming more liberal as a result. "Women in [technical field]" groups tend to be large and active, and to promote a narrative of solidarity which many people find compelling.
Yes I think this could be plausible explanation. I wish the fire dataset had sexism questions to look at. There are some questions about mental health whether people report feeling lonely, overwhelmed, depressed, etc. that I intend to explore more at a future date, but those aren’t (directly at least) related to sexism.
Amazing and unexpected data! Comparing the larger shift in numbers for BYU overall by year with the smaller shift for LDS at BYU, can I conclude that the non-LDS at BYU are shifting Republican to Democrat at a much higher rate than the LDS students?
That's a good call out! I think it's the case, but our sample size for nonmormon BYU students is only 30. So we likely aren't going to find any statistically meaningful results there. I am away from my laptop for the weekend, but will double check when I'm back online early next week 🙂
Yeah, I was wondering if sample size would be an issue.
Ok so after looking at non mormon byu students...
Freshman/Soph: 37%Rep 25%Ind 25%Dem 13%Other
Junior/Senior: 18%Rep 23%Ind 55% Dem 5%Other
We see the Dem proportion more than doubles, but like I mentioned before our total N is 30, so this is only anecdotal.
Alex this is unreal, so interesting
Thanks for reading 🙂