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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Yes
Yeesh.
TOO_SMART_BY_HALF_PING
The study assessed cognitive ability as opposition to Brexit. A 100% correlation was found.
This association of intelligence and pro-Brexit thinking is all coincidence. This is what happens when you don’t design the survey properly.
ReMoaners are still really bitter.
That determination would depend upon the metrics you chose.
More freedom? Less groaning under Brussels' heel? More self-determination? Then it was good.
Fewer E.U. funds allocated for drag queen story-time? Then it was bad!
Regards,
Just like smart cars and smart water! Aren’t we glad our betters are so darned smart. It’s time to jettison smart and go back to wise. Wise infers making great decisions based on diligent reason and experience. Outcomes are better with wisdom than intellect. I literally had an employee tell me his IQ was 150… he is simply unable to live daily life without tantrums and tirades… it’s really pitiful that he thinks so highly of himself and everyone around him is just laughing at his clear inability to cope in a normal work environment.
Translation: higher IQ people were more likely to work in professions that would be adversely affected by BRexit, like the financial industry.
More to the point, they spent more time in our indoctrination centers and otherwise kowtowing to channels of government funding.
Ha ha!
Why don’t they just come out and say that liberals are much smarter than normal people?
The Authors claimed “no specific funding for this study.” So I’m guessing they’re just paid full time by the government to be its resident academic lackeys. I do, however, believe where they erred will eventually get out and ruin their work. They used only heterosexual couples as its test subjects. When LGBTQs find out they gonna be pissed.
Wait a minute…how do you know this little factoid? Is it from studying Jerry Nadler and Brandon?
Ah, the effluent smug of the educated.
This demonstrates that cognitive ability and intelligence are not the same. In fact, they may even be inversely correlated.
More fake science. Did these elitists find the results before or after the study.
Another example of the political “malleability” of social science research! Bigger question is what is it doing on a ‘phys.org’ web site?
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