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How the audiences of news sources differ in their levels of education (www.pewresearch.org)

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Source: Pew Research Center

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[–] Sergio@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

OK you're right. the scales are:

on a scale of all US adults, the percentage who have a college degree
on a scale of all readers who primarily get their news from (given magazine), the percentage who have a college degree

So the scales are still different.

I'm guessing they'd make an argument that: "If the college graduate readership were distributed evenly across all news sources, then (given magazine) would have (the percentage of all US adults who have a college degree)." But the labels don't say that, which is why it is confusing.