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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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[โ€“] Sergio@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] hesh@quokk.au 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Imagine "All Americans" as one of the bars like the others - its just another cohort.