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The Effect of College Education On the Presidential Election

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These are—according to Fox Business data—the best and worst educated states in the United States of America, ordered by percentage of residents 25 or older with at least a bachelor’s degree in 2011. The table also shows how those states voted. Can you see any pattern?

Perhaps there’s no correlation. Perhaps it is just a coincidence. Maybe we should ask the next Secretary of Wizardry and Mathemagics, Nate Silver. Whatever the answer is, I just know that I freaking love statistics. [Happy Place via Neil deGrasse Tyson]

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