Obvious
Unlike a significant fraction of the population, I don't have a hard time understanding why academics vote progressive -- apparently some 3/4 of the time. Instapundit claims it occurs because of a lack of "diversity". What he attributes to group-think of some sort, I actually believe amounts to intelligence and plain logic mixed with critical thinking. In other words, things you learn at the university level.
This number does not differ much from a report released last year, and with the possibility of even higher numbers on the elite campuses.
And it goes back even further:
At the birth of Western culture, a teacher called Socrates was executed for filling "young people's heads with the wrong ideas."
posted by @whut at October 20, 2006
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Or more generally, isn't it OBVIOUS why the print media are more left wing than tv and radio? Print necessarily appeals to the functionally literate.
Self selection cannot be uncorrelated from intellectual cream rising to the top.
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