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My favorite fake statistic in this article is "and nearly half have a college degree." They're trying to frame that paragraph to say the people are educated, and if you read it quickly it comes off that way, instead of "most of these people only have a high school diploma."

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You left off the other half of the sentence that makes it more clear that there are some highly educated people in this cohort: " and nearly 4 in 10 a postgraduate degree."

Which means obviously fake stats. 55% high school, 35% postgrad, and only 10% college in the middle?

I believe it means 4 in 10 of the college educated. I don’t remember the exact line. I’d have to go back and check. However I vouched for your dead comment and wanted to comment quickly.

Not really, "nearly half" is a significant proportion considering that only 30% of americans have anything above a high school diploma

37.5, which is 75 percent of half, I would say "nearly" half puts the education of the people very close to average.

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