Reader comments: Peers, not profs, push youths left
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lost in DC | 8:55 a.m. Oct. 14, 2008
let's see, a college study says it's not the profs. I would be more likely to put credence in the study were it done by an independent entitty - one without a vested interest. As it is now, it's like the Japanese saying they didn't start the war with us in 1941 or that idiot Schumer saying just because $1.3 billion in deposits left Indymac after he said the bank was in trouble, his comments had nothing to do with the run on the bank.
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Since the “peers” of students during college is primarily other students, the influence by the professors is made collectively. That is, each of the study participants AND their peers are influenced by the leftward bias found, almost universally, in college.
Thus, to say that students are influenced most by their peers rather than their professors is faulty logic since their professors’ influence is simply made THROUGH their peers. Rather than being an alternate source, it is an amplified source.