The Elites' Perceptions
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- It's a Rasmussen poll, so take it for what it's worth.
- The defininition of "Elite"
the American Elite – defined as people having at least one post-graduate degree, earning at least $150,000 annually, and living in high-population density areas (more than 10,000 people per square mile in their zip code) Approximately 1% of thetotal U.S. population meets these criteria.
- The Schools
a sub-sample of elites, adults who attended Ivy League schools or other elite private
schools, including Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, and the University of Chicago. Roughly half of those we
classify as “elites” attended one of these schools. For the purpose of this study, we label those who attended one
of these schools as “Ivy League Graduates.”
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The definition of elite seems more than a little arbitrary, and actually quite weird.
It's almost as if they were pre-selecting with a particular result in mind. Obviously that could never happen.
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The definition of elite seems more than a little arbitrary, and actually quite weird.
It's almost as if they were pre-selecting with a particular result in mind. Obviously that could never happen.
I agree it is weird. So much so that categories should be broken down as Elites, Ivy Leaguers and Churls (in the archaic sense of the word).
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John Kerry is a member of the elite, IMHO. Some history professor who lives in New York City dragging in 160K is not. There's a bunch of blokes where I work who would probably qualify under their definition.
They just should say they don't like highly educated city-based liberals and leave it at that.
I was only joking
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John Kerry is a member of the elite, IMHO. Some history professor who lives in New York City dragging in 160K is not. There's a bunch of blokes where I work who would probably qualify under their definition.
They just should say they don't like highly educated city-based liberals and leave it at that.
@Doctor-Phibes said in The Elites' Perceptions:
Some history professor who lives in New York City dragging in 160K is not.
Agreed. As I implied in the original post, the definition of "elite" is questionable.
Nevertheless, I find it interesting that their cutoff of $150K - which would really be upper-middle-class, resulted in these answers.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in The Elites' Perceptions:
Some history professor who lives in New York City dragging in 160K is not.
Agreed. As I implied in the original post, the definition of "elite" is questionable.
Nevertheless, I find it interesting that their cutoff of $150K - which would really be upper-middle-class, resulted in these answers.
@George-K said in The Elites' Perceptions:
Agreed. As I implied in the original post, the definition of "elite" is questionable.
Nevertheless, I find it interesting that their cutoff of $150K - which would really be upper-middle-class, resulted in these answers.
The other thing that's questionable is all of their conclusions, which rather revealingly come at the beginning of the article, as opposed to the end.
As you say, it's Rasmussen. They're based in New Jersey, so their idea of an intellectual snob is somebody who doesn't use spray-tan.
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John Kerry is a member of the elite, IMHO. Some history professor who lives in New York City dragging in 160K is not. There's a bunch of blokes where I work who would probably qualify under their definition.
They just should say they don't like highly educated city-based liberals and leave it at that.
John Kerry is a member of the elite, IMHO.
I understand that like his political opponent, Dubya Bush, Kerry is a Skull and Bones man from his days at Yale.
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By the poll’s definition, a multibillionaire living in Omaha, Nebraska or Jackson Hole, Wyoming would not qualify as an “elite.” The late Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, as college dropouts, would also not qualify. Neither would Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk for not having a post-graduate degree.
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Where is the justification for their definition of what constitutes an 'elite'?
Call me Mr. Cynical if you will, but I think there's a very good chance that they've decided on a narrative, and then picked a sample that fits the narrative.
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Think you've already said that.
I'm not sure it invalidates the data.
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@Jolly said in The Elites' Perceptions:
Think you've already said that.
I'm not sure it invalidates the data.
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses a lamp post. For support rather than illumination”
