Apparently not. In the data, the well-educated are only microscopically more liberal. In the General Social Survey, people place themselves on a seven-step scale, where 1 is “extremely liberal,” 4 is “moderate,” and 7 is “extremely conservative.” An extra year of education seems to make people .014 steps more liberal.27 Taken literally, over seventy years of education are required to shift ideology a single step. Statistical corrections make this effect look stronger, but it stays weak.28
