Education Level.

motorbiking said:
Any link to education levels and remain/leave vote hasn't taken the age distribution in to account.
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Are you quite sure about that?

Maybe you ought to go and check the sources that have been quoted.

Perhaps you will then wish to reconsider your assertion.
 
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The remain leaning newspapers wanted make a link that leavers are low educated, xenophobic morons on benefits.
JohnD said:
Are you quite sure about that?

Maybe you ought to go and check the sources that have been quoted.

Perhaps you will then wish to reconsider your assertion.
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I'm quite sure that if you took a decently sized random sample of people living in a country, where: cost of living, wealth, education, country of origin, age etc etc varied vastly, you could argue that it told you than northerners were thick and poor and southerners were rich and smart. Of course the smart person compares them against their peers. Unfortunately since nobody put their qualifications, income and age on the voting form, all the stats compared the demographic of areas voting leave vs the demographic of areas voting remain. The media agenda wanted to use this to imply that leavers were thick and remainers smart.

You cannot reliably conclude this.

I suspect you can count the number leave voting EU Law professionals living in London on one hand, just as you could the number of out of work cabbage pickers in Lincolnshire who'd vote remain.

Based on this poll we have 3 degree educated leavers and 1 degree educated remainer - pretty conclusive that leave voters are smarter than remain - Not
 
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motorbiking said:
The remain leaning newspapers wanted make a link that leavers are low educated, xenophobic morons on benefits.


I'm quite sure that if you took a decently sized random sample of people living in a country, where: cost of living, wealth, education, country of origin, age etc etc varied vastly, you could argue that it told you than northerners were thick and poor and southerners were rich and smart. Of course the smart person compares them against their peers. Unfortunately since nobody put their qualifications, income and age on the voting form, all the stats compared the demographic of areas voting leave vs the demographic of areas voting remain. The media agenda wanted to use this to imply that leavers were thick and remainers smart.

You cannot reliably conclude this.

I suspect you can count the number leave voting EU Law professionals living in London on one hand, just as you could the number of out of work cabbage pickers in Lincolnshire who'd vote remain.

Based on this poll we have 3 degree educated leavers and 1 degree educated remainer - pretty conclusive that leave voters are smarter than remain - Not
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http://www.statsguy.co.uk/brexit-voting-and-education/

That's an interesting breakdown with data and statistical analysis.

But with those caveats in mind, it certainly seems as if it is a more educated population first and foremost which predicts a higher remain vote, and not a population of higher socioeconomic status.
 
JohnD said:
I see that although you're willing to make up fictional scenarios, you're not willing to look at the work that has already been done, and linked on here on a number of occasions.
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That statistical analysis does take age into account.
 
JohnD said:
I see that although you're willing to make up fictional scenarios, you're not willing to look at the work that has already been done, and linked on here on a number of occasions.
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post it up then..
 
you've refused to read it before. Or maybe you just refuse to accept it.

JohnD said:
Are you quite sure about that?

Maybe you ought to go and check the sources that have been quoted.

Perhaps you will then wish to reconsider your assertion.
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SirGalahad said:
certainly seems as if it is a more educated population first and foremost
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it just considers higher education, ie degree level.

The numbers of people going to university has dramatically changed from say the 1960s to the present day.....which is all that research proves.

For example, a young nurse would be classed as higher educated, due to having a degree, older nurses would be classed as 'lower educated'.
 
Sir Gs article did attempt to adjust for age but it could not account for the independent data sets. It does mention this. We do not have data that says..

voter#, age, education level, vote cast.

Therefore we cannot group voters by their demographic and then look at education level and vote cast.

The data does not allow the following question: In county xyz, for voters aged 50-60 who were educated to degree level, what %age voted leave vs remain.

The data isn’t there. All they can do and have done, is conclude that counties where people are more likely to have degrees voted remain.

That tends to be driven by employment prospects, wealth etc.

Anyway back on topic.. Do we have any more remainers with degrees? or are the others all serving forum bans?
 
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