No votes to university graduates
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This chart means that the governerate with a higher percentage of university graduates is more likely to vote no in the last referendum.
You can access referendum results here.
UPDATE: I uploaded an excel file with data from referendum and numbers of university graduates from CAPMAS. The data from CAPMAS is from 2006.
This is just a dump of one correlation found. I am trying to look for other interesting bits in this data.
Professor Tarek Masoud found a weaker correlation "between illiteracy and the likelihood that people voted yes on the constitutional referendum."
Comments
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Elbeltagy
I want to believe this plot. Do you have raw data and the references for the number of university graduates in each governerate?
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moftasa
Yes, I'll try to get file from CAPMAS up. But the blog is acting a bit weird with uploads.
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Amr
I am trying to get the results broken into smaller administrative units, either لجان انتخابية or شياخات و قرى. Have you come across this?
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moftasa
Yes, only problem is that it's not in an easy to export table. A drop down
list for every governerate. If you manage to get this info into a
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Amr
I saw these. These are only percentages and not numbers.
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Elbeltagy
They have now updated the site... It seems like you download that data in excel or csv format.
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Amr
Great. I spent the larger part of the day creating a similar CSV file. Now I will use this.
Any chance to get more detailed breakup of the شياخات?
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Semsemdavinci
Nice analysis; and it somehow supports, visually, what a some people have suggested. However, it should not be taken as an ultimate evidence that those who voted yes are necessarily just ignorant. Some would argue that statistics can be misleading and that you can infer whatever you choose from some amount of data!
<3 data!
Moabdall
Correlation is not causation.
where is your R2 value?
moftasa
R2 = 0.60
David Shor
R^2 = Correlation^2. Fun and useful fact.