I think there is a distinction to be made between what is academically 'provable' and ... let's call it 'lived experience'. There's a reason for these tropes and they don't come out of thin air. My theory is that there are archetypes of all political persuasions and that these are typically the people who are overrepresented especially online.
We had this during Brexit, with people who looked a certain way always being identifiable as Leave supporters just from their faces and misspelling borders as 'boarders'. They were Leave archetypes. Progressive, childless cat women may not be an empirical or epistemological fact identifying the leftishist cohort, but they certainly exist and we can all recognise them. I thought this too when you demonstrated the lack of empirical support for Luxury Beliefs.
In other words, I think you're dead right, but that there is also a there there.
Yes, completely agree - there's certainly something to these categories, even if proponents tend to overstate their importance and empirical evidence could be much better.
> In both the US and UK, childlessness does not have a statistically significant relationship with social justice values. In other models, we created an interaction term between female gender and childlessness, this measuring whether the combination of childlessness and female gender increases the likelihood of respondents supporting social justice ideology. As with childlessness, the interaction term failed to achieve statistical significance.
Is the question whether "responders supporting social justice ideology are more likely to be childless" also covered?
Because the interaction can be assymetric (since women in the last decade at least are more likely to vote progressive from polls I've seen).
>Is the question whether "responders supporting social justice ideology are more likely to be childless" also covered?<
That's the whole aim of the analysis. With such a topic, experimental or quasi-experimental analysis is impossible for various practical reasons. And though we found this in our British Election Study sample of the whole British voting population, we didn't find this in our progressive only sample (i.e. supporters of liberalism and/or social justice ideology).
As you suspect, female gender is more consistently associated with support for social justice values.
I think there is a distinction to be made between what is academically 'provable' and ... let's call it 'lived experience'. There's a reason for these tropes and they don't come out of thin air. My theory is that there are archetypes of all political persuasions and that these are typically the people who are overrepresented especially online.
We had this during Brexit, with people who looked a certain way always being identifiable as Leave supporters just from their faces and misspelling borders as 'boarders'. They were Leave archetypes. Progressive, childless cat women may not be an empirical or epistemological fact identifying the leftishist cohort, but they certainly exist and we can all recognise them. I thought this too when you demonstrated the lack of empirical support for Luxury Beliefs.
In other words, I think you're dead right, but that there is also a there there.
Yes, completely agree - there's certainly something to these categories, even if proponents tend to overstate their importance and empirical evidence could be much better.
> In both the US and UK, childlessness does not have a statistically significant relationship with social justice values. In other models, we created an interaction term between female gender and childlessness, this measuring whether the combination of childlessness and female gender increases the likelihood of respondents supporting social justice ideology. As with childlessness, the interaction term failed to achieve statistical significance.
Is the question whether "responders supporting social justice ideology are more likely to be childless" also covered?
Because the interaction can be assymetric (since women in the last decade at least are more likely to vote progressive from polls I've seen).
>Is the question whether "responders supporting social justice ideology are more likely to be childless" also covered?<
That's the whole aim of the analysis. With such a topic, experimental or quasi-experimental analysis is impossible for various practical reasons. And though we found this in our British Election Study sample of the whole British voting population, we didn't find this in our progressive only sample (i.e. supporters of liberalism and/or social justice ideology).
As you suspect, female gender is more consistently associated with support for social justice values.