This figure, part of this New York Times story, illustrates the percentage of people (grouped by age and sex) who think that it is likely a woman will be president in their lifetime:
I’ll admit, it makes me feel like a crotchety old cynic.
This figure, part of this New York Times story, illustrates the percentage of people (grouped by age and sex) who think that it is likely a woman will be president in their lifetime:
I’ll admit, it makes me feel like a crotchety old cynic.
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Umlud — September 16, 2008
What makes me a cynic is that I once-again get put into a massive age category of "Under 45". I wonder why that is.
Is it because splitting it into "Under 30" and "31-44" would massively throw off the results in a manner that doesn't conform to a story they are trying to tell?
Is it because they didn't get a broad-enough spectrum of people "Under 45"?
What is the distribution of the data? How many respondents are in each category?
Yeesh. It's like people at CBS News are publishing the bare minimum of data. It's like they don't think we would want more information about the data itself. (That's whats making me cynical.)
Jane — September 16, 2008
I'm drawn to "Mrs. President". No possibility of "Ms"?
Village Idiot — September 17, 2008
I’m drawn to “Mrs. President”. No possibility of “Ms”?
Nope, and no bachelors will be elected either in the current political climate (the last unmarried President was Grover Cleveland). A candidate must keep up what are perceived to be the proper appearances, after all. I'd guess that's why Hillary didn't divorce Bill.
Anyhow, I think Umlud is right about the strange choice of age ranges in this chart, though the youngest Baby Boomers are about 45 years old at this point and the oldest are about 62, so it might be a matter of using 45 and then 46-64 as arbitrary cut-off ages to illustrate differing attitudes of the pre-Boomer, Boomer, and post-Boomer generations. Or something like that. IMO, the post-Boomer generations shouldn't all be lumped together like that as it glosses over the significant diversity of beliefs and attitudes observed within and between each subsequent generation.
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