Dagens ETC, a Swedish Leftie daily newspaper, discusses the recent dramatic divergence in political opinions between men and women under the headline "Men are from YouTube, women are from TikTok". And it makes me wonder what planet I'm on, because I don't think anyone regardless of #gender should get their political impulses from watching video clips. I use YouTube only when I need to do my tie or learn a complicated boardgame.
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Well, the article talks mostly about the Swedish media landscape and uses the FT article about gender differences as a backdrop.
The gender differences that anchor the discussion seem to be of the questionable variety, probably explaining why the could be so dramatic:
> For these reasons, scholars approach the claims of a widening and increasingly significant youth gender gap with some skepticism. “It’s so new that I’m reluctant to say it’s definitely a thing,” Lawless explains.
> A close look at the data bears out her caution.
> In the Financial Times, Burn-Murdoch used data on ideological self-identification — primarily the Gallup Social Series, supplemented by the General Social Survey (GSS) — to show that young women were considerably more likely than young men to identify as liberal.
> The problem, though, is that the GSS data directly contradicts the Gallup data. An analysis by data scientist Allen Downey found that, after accounting for what looked like a statistical error in the 2022 GSS result, “there is no evidence that the ideology gap is growing.”
from https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/3/13/24098780/politics-gender-divide-generation-z-youth-men-women
h/t @kaiarzheimer
