Harvard Professor Dr. Lee High recently determined that popularity level in high school has a significant influence on whether high school students will register as Republicans or Democrats upon graduation.

The department of Anthropology & Sociology, which is in it’s 54th year of existence, was supportive of Dr. Lee’s pursuance of such a claim, despite the negative stigma that comes with categorizing the young and coddled generation of Millennials.

Popular student shoves less popular student in a locker at Nease high school in 2014.

Lee and several Assistant Professors monitored 100 high school students over the past decade and judged their high school popularity by several factors, including number of varsity letters, how many sexual partners they had, the number of people that wrote on their Facebook wall for their birthday, as well as other binary metrics such as whether or not they received a Homecoming Court nomination.

“What we have to come determine is that a higher popularity rating usually correlates to a person associating with the Republican Party, whereas the less popular students typically end up being more liberal and registered as a Democrat,” says Dr. Lee in the Harvard Crimson journal.

The results of the study were consistent with the expectations that Dr. High had when he began the experiment in 2005. “I have done several studies in the field of Sociology, and I had an instinctual feeling that the less popular students – or the losers – would be more liberal. They are used to not getting their way, and they want to go out and consistently change the world and help out other people like themselves who, for whatever reason, have not been able to succeed in life. This mentality sets in with them at a very young age,” Lee mentioned in a phone interview earlier this month.

The study also showed that students with dyslexia registered as independents in 6/6 cases, although. Dr. Lee was unable to pinpoint a reason for this phenomenon.