Poll: Most Republicans say colleges have negative impact on US

[ExodusNirvana]

A majority of Republicans in a new survey think colleges and universities have a negative effect on the U.S.

The Pew Research Center poll finds 58 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents think colleges and universities hurt the country.

Just 36 percent of Republicans think they have a positive effect.

In contrast, a large majority of Democrats, 72 percent, say colleges and universities have a positive effect on the country.
Overall, slightly more than half of the public, 55 percent, thinks colleges and universities help the U.S., according to the survey.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/34...icans-say-colleges-have-negative-impact-on-us

 

[Regular_P]

And that's how you get Trump.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Haha stick it to the stupid libs

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

With the news of campuses rioting after alt-right cac conservative speakers, threats to "free speech" from white supremacist, and a feeling that college campuses are hostile to white conservative men....this poll comes as zero surprise.

 

[tru_m.a.c]

don't fall for the okie doke

ya black ass ain't shyt with a college degree to them....and you mean even less without one

 

[DEAD7]

Not surprising

 

[714562]

Delete

 

[Don Homer]

hmmmm

Do they mean getting a higher education?

Or do they mean, the amount of debt that millions of graduates are left with? If they mean this, I'd agree

But republicans don't care about student loan debt, so I think they are talking about the former.

But to set the record straight, you are, almost by definition, an idiot if you think that pursuing a college degree is a bad idea.

Half the country makes 30k or less a year. A college degree will definitely help financially

 

[Gus Money]

Makes sense for the party of anti intellectualism.

 

[Maschine_Man]

With the news of campuses rioting after alt-right cac conservative speakers, threats to "free speech" from white supremacist, and a feeling that college campuses are hostile to white conservative men....this poll comes as zero surprise.

you may be being facetious with this statement but it more than likely has some truth to it.

also, this "poll" (of just over 2500 ppl in the whole country) is missing alot of context.

do they factor in debt from college? do they factor in the chances of not finding much better work after?

cuz many other polls show that across the board many ppl are having these same qualms about "college"


I'm just saying, without more context this poll seems......questionable.

 

[Starman]

you may be being facetious with this statement but it more than likely has some truth to it.

also, this "poll" (of just over 2500 ppl in the whole country) is missing alot of context.

do they factor in debt from college? do they factor in the chances of not finding much better work after?

cuz many other polls show that across the board many ppl are having these same qualms about "college"


I'm just saying, without more context this poll seems......questionable.

If you consider debt, job prospects, the quality of education, and thottery it's not hard to see how a certain segment of Americans can conclude college has a "negative impact".

 

[the cac mamba]

they do have a negative impact. kids owe about 1.4 trillion dollars

overall, no. they arent negative. but its certainly moving towards that way

 

[Maschine_Man]

If you consider debt, job prospects, the quality of education, and thottery it's not hard to see how a certain segment of Americans can conclude college has a "negative impact".

Methodology
The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted June 8-18, 2017 among a national sample of 2,504 adults, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia (628 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 1,876 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 1,109 who had no landline telephone). The survey was conducted by interviewers at Princeton Data Source under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. A combination of landline and cell phone random digit dial samples were used; both samples were provided by Survey Sampling International. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish. Respondents in the landline sample were selected by randomly asking for the youngest adult male or female who is now at home. Interviews in the cell sample were conducted with the person who answered the phone, if that person was an adult 18 years of age or older. For detailed information about our survey methodology, seeU.S. Survey Research




basically, they are asking people that are college aged whether college has a negative impact or not. thus the answers they are getting will probably be skewed from a college aged persons perspective.

first off, could they afford college? are they currently in debt because of college? are they currently going to college? Is the current wave of anti-conservative and anti-free speech, etc. having an impact on their schooling?


I don't think ANYONE can deny that most campuses nowadays are a lot mroe tolerant and accepting for liberals/democrats.


not to mention the small numbers they used.

 

[hashmander]

you all better learn to adapt in this new idiocracy world before you end up feeling lost and confused like joe bowers. and you better buy that brawndo stock and get with the program , it's got what plants crave! it's got electrolytes.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

why am I not surprised.