Alabama has elected a Democratic senator

[palou]

betacon said:

palou said:

I never claimed that it was sexist (you can read my other replies), just that your info was inaccurate. Statistically, a deviation of 18.5% in the ratios between men and women (1.55 vs 1.30) is not insignificant. Also, some women being in support of abortion does not exclude it from being sexist. Women's suffrage did not see wide support from either sex before the 20th Century, in the US.

I never claimed you thought it was. It is insignificant by the article you linked it's a 4% difference between the genders, not sure how you would ever claim that was a wide margin.  It most certainly does excluded it from being sexist, unless you want to argue that women are too dumb/weak to decide for them self and are controlled by the male vote.

4% out of hundred in pure difference is a misleading number, a better representation, here, to determine the impact of sex, is a percentile of the mean (correct calculation: 100*(42-38)/((38+42)/2) = 10%)

I do think that people, in general, largely create their opinions by osmosis from society, and not through their own logical reasoning (in the case that there is no obvious answer.) That's why we also have 78% of Swedes supporting abortion in all cases and 65% of Brazilians with the belief should be illegal (with the reasonable exceptions.) Not because either the Swedes or Brazilians are retarded, not because they are looking at a fundamentally different moral question, not because logic works differently in some parts of the world. But rather, because they grew up in an environment that encouraged their respective beliefs. At heart, no one truly has a fully independent opinion on anything.