Participants with bachelor's degrees or not possessing a degree will be conservative, while those with advanced degrees will be liberal. This hypothesis was partially not disconfirmed. However, the 22 respondents with graduate degrees who gave an ideological identification were only slightly less conservative with a mean score of 5.82. A means test showed the difference to be significant. In other words, despite the difference even the graduate degree respondents were more conservative than liberal.
Participants are more likely to be male.
Significant numbers of respondents will call themselves Republicans, independents, or say that parties are irrelevant to them. Of the 62 respondents giving an answer to the gender query, 91.9 percent were male. Only one was not white of the same number answering the race question for a white percentage of 98.4 percent. This hypothesis was supported heavily by these data. Only five of 57 said that parties were irrelevant.