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Who was politically intolerant in 2016?

i/o posted this figure on X:

Leftist women were the most intolerant, an expected result. However, is this due to their ideology and sex, or something else, say, where they live or being young? I decided to download the dataset and have a look. Here’s my results:

Details:

  • The outcome is yes/no answer to the question in the title.
  • Logistic models. A full model (in red) and a model for each predictor alone (in turquoise).
  • n = 1004

Holding other factors constant and ignoring multiple testing, we see that the predictors of being intolerant are: being female, ideologically liberal or very liberal, and highly educated. The survey is too small to try anything more specific. Arguably I controlled for too many things and reduced precision too much. If we simplify it, we get this:

Nothing really changed though. White race does not predict blocking before or after covariates are added. The most intolerant remains highly educated, highly liberal women.