Being extra intelligent has been “strongly linked” to voting to Remain within the EU within the 2016 Brexit referendum, a examine has proven.
Researchers from the University of Bath checked out whether or not cognitive abilities together with reminiscence, verbal fluency and numerical reasoning have been linked to how individuals determined to vote. It discovered that solely 40% of individuals with the bottom cognitive skill voted Remain, whereas 73% of these with the very best cognitive skill voted stay.
Lead examine writer Dr Chris Dawson mentioned: “Depending on which side of the debate you fall, reading this may fill you with anger or joy. However, both these emotions are an error of judgement.” He warned the findings are based on “average differences”, adding there is a “huge amount of overlap” between the spread of Remain and Leave cognitive abilities. “Indeed, we calculated that approximately 36% of Leave voters had higher cognitive ability than the average (mean) Remain voter,” he mentioned.
Dr Dawson, from the University of Bath’s School of Management, mentioned the examine added to current tutorial proof exhibiting that individuals with low cognitive skill are “more susceptible to misinformation and disinformation”. “People with lower cognitive ability and analytical thinking skills find it harder to detect and discount this type of information,” he added.
“We know that evidence has been put forward that information provided to the public in the months leading up to the referendum was contradictory, false and often fraudulent, especially regarding the pro-Leave campaign, and that this information proliferated on social media platforms.”
Brexit architect Nigel Farage has been grilled over his rhetoric throughout referendum on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! On Wednesday’s episode of the ITV1 actuality present, YouTuber Nella Rose mentioned to Mr Farage “apparently you’re anti-immigrants”, which she mentioned she examine on the web.
As they each stood within the tub space of the camp, Ms Rose requested: “Why don’t black people like you? Mr Farage said: “You’d be amazed, they do,” to which Rose replied: “So everybody hates you for no purpose?” The GB News presenter said: “You can disagree with anyone, however to chuck round accusations the way in which they have been chucked round is grossly unfair. Anti-immigrant, proper? No, no, all I’ve mentioned is we can not go on with the numbers coming to Britain which can be coming.”
Ms Rose pressed Mr Farage on the “downside” of immigration because “I’m a kind of numbers” – to which he said the pressure of the number of people was affecting GP appointments. She told the former politician: “I’m stopping you getting a GP appointment? You’re not getting an appointment as a result of the NHS is missing funding. I guess you something if each single immigrant or from immigrant descent was to go away the UK, all of your medical doctors gone, most of your medical doctors are Asian proper? Most of your nurses are African ladies, proper? You need us gone, that is all I understood.” Mr Farage said Ms Rose was not listening to him, before adding: “We can comply with disagree.”
Mr Farage had beforehand been criticised by fellow jungle campmate Fred Sirieix a few poster, utilized by Mr Farage when he was campaigning for the UK to go away the European Union in the course of the 2016 referendum, as “shameful”. On Monday’s episode, First Dates star Mr Sirieix added that he felt it was about “demonising migrants”, to which Mr Farage replied: “In your view it was, but it surely wasn’t.”
The University of Bath study used a nationally representative sample of 6,366 individuals. The data came from Understanding Society, the largest longitudinal study of UK households.