{"id":4573,"date":"2004-10-19T07:52:10","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T07:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2004-10-19T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T07:52:10","slug":"social-class-and-tolerance-for-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4573","title":{"rendered":"social class and tolerance for gays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/images\/gaytolerance.GIF\" width=\"377\" height=\"360\" align=\"right\">I<\/p>\n<p>was wondering whether people who are more educated and wealthier are more tolerant<\/p>\n<p>of homosexuality. According to the General Social Survey, the answer is yes.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this result is intuitive, but I always like to check. <\/p>\n<p>Education and income each correlate with tolerance. I don&#8217;t have the time right<\/p>\n<p>now to figure out whether the real driver is education (which may increase both<\/p>\n<p>income and tolerance). There could be a third factor underlying the relationship,<\/p>\n<p>such as urbanicity, age, religious denomination, or region. But just to dramatize<\/p>\n<p>the basic situation, here is a graph that contrasts upper-middle-class people<\/p>\n<p>who have college degrees (in blue) and lower-income people with no more than<\/p>\n<p>high school (in red). The difference in attitudes toward gays is pretty stark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wondering whether people who are more educated and wealthier are more tolerant of homosexuality. According to the General Social Survey, the answer is yes. I guess this result is intuitive, but I always like to check. Education and income each correlate with tolerance. I don&#8217;t have the time right now to figure out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}