It's no secret that both Democrats and Republicans secretly think they're much smarter than each other.
However, a new survey of social media posts by writing-enhancement platform Grammarly seemingly confirms progressives' snide suspicions: People who support Republican candidates tend to make grammatical errors at much higher rates than those who support Democrats — at least, when they're leaving comments online.
Grammarly analyzed approximately 180 representative comments from each presidential candidate's official Facebook page, choosing only positive or neutral posts to check for grammatical errors. In their total analysis of more than 6,000 comments, GOP candidates emerged as clear leaders in the field of linguistic mistakes.
This goes along with that thread Giselle made a few days ago about the fact that Ivy Leaguers are far more likely to support Democratic candidates.
I wonder how much research has been done on political affiliation + intelligence / education level.
I read an article with stats showing that as students progress deeper into their education they are more likely to become liberal, and the most liberal people at Universities are the professors. Quite interesting.
