• hesh@quokk.au
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    It’s not “what % of college graduates get their news from this source”, it’s “what % of adults that get their news from this source have a college degree”

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      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.

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