{"id":19614,"date":"2025-09-23T17:52:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=19614"},"modified":"2026-01-19T21:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:01:29","slug":"propaganda-works-by-combining-believable-info-into-untrue-conclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2025\/09\/23\/propaganda-works-by-combining-believable-info-into-untrue-conclusions\/","title":{"rendered":"Propaganda works by combining believable info into untrue conclusions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This works because it combines two independent variables by multiplying them together, making the situation look even worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The marriage rate by age 30 dropped because:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Cultural changes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. In 1950, almost 80-90% of adults in the U.S. were married; today it is under 50%. This has nothing to do with housing, But this becomes a multiplier that cuts the “homeownership AND MARRIED” chart line in half. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Cohabiting today is considered fine – and many young delay marriage or choose not to pursue it all. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Vastly more young people now attend college versus 1950s and 1960s. Then, young people sought jobs by age 18-21 and began working full time, earning income.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Rather than working, young people today go to college and accumulate debts and do not enter the workforce as a full time, career type job until age 25 or so.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. The above changes have nothing to do with home prices.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Next<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    The explosion of young people attending college pushes their future home buying out by 5-8 years, minimum. In the 50s and 60s, young people went to work and had been earning incomes for up to ten years by the time there 28-30. Today, young people have gone to college and accumulated debts – and are not in a position to buy a home until their late 20s at the soonest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The result is the above chart is misleading – or in fact, it’s an outright lie created by combining two unrelated variables, each of whose trends have alternative and valid explainations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    College Education Trend<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    Changes in Home Sizes During This Period<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    During this period the average home size nearly tripled in size – think that has an effect on prices?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    \"average<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    The effect is that the above claims about being married and owning a home are meaningless and created to foster doomerism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    An online meme notes that the % of “married”, “homeowners” is low. It is a real decline but they’ve combined 2 independent variables to make it look worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,357,359,352,36,38,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assertion","category-cherry-picking","category-daily-doomer","category-everything-is-awful","category-misinformation","category-politics","category-propaganda-methods","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20229,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19614\/revisions\/20229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}