Brexit demographics

[Mormolyce]

I thought this was interesting, you can actually see the statistical correlation between Brexit voting patterns and education level, age, ethnicity etc in this BBC article.



http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-38762034

The strongest correlation was with education, followed by age (weaker) and ethnicity (weaker still). You can read the full analysis in the article, it's pretty extensive and interesting.

[Deleted]

So much for the "those who voted for Brexit were stupid" narrative.

[Floopa]

we are 100% leaving the EU so instead of crying over spilt milk we should be leading the discussion on how to get the best out of our brexit deal.

So much for the "those who voted for Brexit were stupid" narrative.

are you telling me that the 52% of the population that voted leave are not all idiots? shocking

[Deleted]

are you telling me that the 52% of the population that voted leave are not all idiots? shocking

I know right?!
It's almost like the there's a mindset on the left that views disagreement with stupidity.

[May90]

So much for the "those who voted for Brexit were stupid" narrative.

That's literally what the first plot suggests.

[telygroar]

where are the aliens vote counted ?

[Helgrimm]

So much for the "those who voted for Brexit were stupid" narrative.

Do you know how to read graphs?

[Deleted]

Do you know how to read graphs?

Do you know back in the day higher education wasnt for every village idiot with debts?

[Toccs]

Just a thought...

Example: It could be that people with higher education don't end up working/living in the places that suffer from immigration pressures and therefore don't suffer from the same threats to their work/living conditions. (ie - A lawyer compared to a manual labourer)

I don't think its as black and white as the BBC makes out.

[Independent voter]

Globalization affects people with less education more, this is to be expected.

[May90]

Do you know back in the day higher education wasnt for every village idiot with debts?

Lol, are you seriously trying to argue that people with higher education are, in average, stupider than those without?

[tankbug]

So much for the "those who voted for Brexit were stupid" narrative.

Yes, they were stupid and/or old. Great team!

[Aggrophobic]

So much for the "those who voted for Brexit were stupid" narrative.

Ehm... Did you actually take a look at the nice little pictures the OP showed you?
I'm guessing you'd vote "leave".

[Milchshake]

That's literally what the first plot suggests.

I think the technical term is "own goal", or Dunning Kruger effect in action.

[Dezerte]

Not so interesting as it was rather unsurprising. I think people who voted leave generally did it due to other factors (distrust, dissatisfaction, fear, etc).

[Runenwächter]

No offense but there are different experiences with immigration that corelate strongly with income which in turn corelates strongly with education:
If you live next to an afghani doctor and his grade school teacher wife, chances are those are educated people who adhere to our norms and values in social interactions, no matter what their faith is or how their household is structured. This is because the instituitions of educations filter out those that are completely unwilling to learn reasonable debate and scientific method.
If you live in a neighborhood with a high % of low education immigrants your experience will be vastly different. Violence and unreasonable behaviour are what you experience, as well as nationalism and glorification up to a radical point of the culture they left behind.

If I belong to the first group of course immigration seems like a good deal. Because immigration like that is a good deal!
But as it seems like a good deal to the first group, it seems like a shit deal to the second group. The same thing applies: Because immigration like that is a shit deal.

Both are perfectly reasonable in their assessment, what is not reasonable is to completely reject immigration or glorify it to a point where you argue for no selective process at all (not security, but in terms of education and marketable skills).

[TotemJoker]

The fact this comes from the bbc means this information is rather unreliable

[karumayu]

No offense but there are different experiences with immigration that corelate strongly with income which in turn corelates strongly with education:
If you live next to an afghani doctor and his grade school teacher wife, chances are those are educated people who adhere to our norms and values in social interactions, no matter what their faith is or how their household is structured. This is because the instituitions of educations filter out those that are completely unwilling to learn reasonable debate and scientific method.
If you live in a neighborhood with a high % of low education immigrants your experience will be vastly different. Violence and unreasonable behaviour are what you experience, as well as nationalism and glorification up to a radical point of the culture they left behind.

If I belong to the first group of course immigration seems like a good deal. Just as it seems like a shit deal to the second group.

So basically less education correlates to bad behavior. If so, what is wrong in assuming the natives with low education to be prone to violence and unreasonable behavior, as well as nationalism and glorification of the culture they live in?

[Radaney]

Lol, are you seriously trying to argue that people with higher education are, in average, stupider than those without?

Someone being a French Graduate doesn't exactly put them at the forefront of political, law or business knowledge though.

[May90]

Here is another plot, for another populism victory - US presidential elections 2016:

http://cdn.static-economist.com/site...2_woc961_0.png

Same picture: more educated people voted for reason (Hillary), less educated voted for bravado (Trump).

Someone being a French Graduate doesn't exactly put them at the forefront of political, law or business knowledge though.

They are still likely to know much more about these fields, than someone who has never opened a book after leaving high school.