Posted on 11/22/2023 7:14:36 PM PST by devane617
A new analysis suggests that a person with higher cognitive ability may have been more likely to vote "Remain" in the 2016 Brexit referendum, and that a spouse's cognitive skills may also be linked to Brexit voting decisions. Chris Dawson and Paul Baker of the University of Bath, U.K., present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on November 22, 2023.
Having higher cognitive ability has previously been associated with a greater tendency to recognize and resist misinformation. Studies have also shown that the U.K. public received a large volume of misinformation about the referendum prior to voting for the U.K. to withdraw from the EU ("Brexit"). However, while a growing body of research has investigated potential links between people's Brexit votes and socioeconomic, sociodemographic, and psychological factors, less research has addressed the potential role of cognitive ability in their decisions.
Dawson and Baker analyzed data on 3,183 heterosexual U.K. couples collected as part of a large survey study called Understanding Society. They examined whether there were any links between participants' reporting that they had voted "Leave" or "Remain" and their cognitive ability—as measured by their performance on a variety of tasks. The researchers statistically accounted for other factors that could also be linked to voting decisions, such as socioeconomic and sociodemographic traits, political preferences, and a widely studied set of personality traits known as the Big Five.A new analysis suggests that a person with higher cognitive ability may have been more likely to vote "Remain" in the 2016 Brexit referendum, and that a spouse's cognitive skills may also be linked to Brexit voting decisions. Chris Dawson and Paul Baker of the University of Bath, U.K., present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on November 22, 2023.
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You know why the physicist broke up with the biologist?
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They had no chemistry.
I’ve been watching this circum-self-massaged-buck called the E.U. , from the start.
I have an I.Q. of 126, and I supportrd Brexit, and still do.
So high IQ and wisdom are inversely related.
Lol…
Has there been any reliable study showing whether Brexit has been good or bad for the UK?
So the societal elites who were vested in the existing economic structure of UK before Brexit were opposed to leaving the EU. What’s so surprising about that?
I don’t worry about the %. Neither my wife or I took the Jab, and we will not take it in the future.
I’m 75, she is younger.
Some wag once said of academics that they’ve learned more and more about less and less until they know absolutely everything about nothing, and absolutely nothing about everything else.
What troubles me is that they don’t know what they don’t know. Outside of their field, PhDs tend to cluster on the far left of the Dunning-Krueger curve.
You are definitely better off out of the eu.
Higher cognitive ability is correlated with having attended university, which is (over the past generation or two) correlated with having been exposed to left-wing indoctrination.
Codswallop! How completely absurd and stupid!
So smarter people were more likely to vote to remain enslaved to Brussels? So much for intellectuals.
Yeah, these folks seem pretty dumb for smart people.
I’ll bet they still think they’re brilliant as they clutch their pain racked myocarditic chests.
Who'da thunk it?
Why highly intelligent people suffer from more mental and physical disorders bigthink.comA new paper published in the journal Intelligence reviews the literature and explores the mechanisms that possibly underlie this connection.
The results showed that highly intelligent people are 20% more likely to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), 80% more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD, 83% more likely to be diagnosed with anxiety, and 182% more likely to develop at least one mood disorder.
The researchers statistically accounted for other factors that could also be linked to voting decisions, such as socioeconomic and sociodemographic traits, political preferences, and a widely studied set of personality traits known as the Big Five.
Yeah, adjust and adjust....
Well, that means it was the opposite.
It’s amazing how these people always find exactly what they expected to find. It’s almost as if they think that smart people will be exactly like them.
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