Frame this north American style. The poorest voted for it because it was in their interests
People who voted for Brexit ‘more likely to be less intelligent’, study claims
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
The people with high IQ may vote to further the interests of people with high IQ, effectively oppressing the people with low IQ.
> the interests of people with high IQ What would that be? More library funding? NASA? NSF?
Smart people are equally greedy and corruptable.
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#23Frame this north American style. The poorest voted for it because it was in their interests
They voted for it because they were propagandized into believing it was in their interests.
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#24Imagine a democracy in which you vote your IQ from an official test. If your IQ was measured at 114 your vote counts 114 times, etc. This seems obviously unfair. But would it improve the results? My intuition fails me here, I can't predict. I wonder if that rule would have swung Brexit the other way? That would give an idea of the magnitude of the difference.
Though not a measure of IQ, the USA used to require landownership as the litmus test for voting. It might be a similar enough metric.
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#26These things are always brought up when supposedly right wing voting happens(=against the interests of the ruling class). I wonder who knows best what’s best for the common man, himself or University of Baths “school of management“? I’ve only even here for a few months for work, but I’ve never been in a more classist country than the UK. It’s shocking. I am happy for the British public. They might be stupider than th…
> I’ve never been in a more classist country than the UK. It’s shocking. Genuinely curious... How does this manifest itself in practice there?
When people meet you they try and group you by asking where you studied etc similarly to where you worked.
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#27Please don’t Reddit my HN
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#29Massively unhelpful study which nevertheless raises an important point about the democratic system of governance - intelligence not being a factor in making critically important decisions - which would appear to be an un-smart way of doing things
There's no evidence that people with a higher IQ do better at choosing where to vote on the ballot. Germany, for example, was a highly educated society in the 1930s, one of the most educated in the world. They voted for Hitler.
yes true. Maybe the issue is not intelligence but the voting
Re: People who voted for Brexit ‘more likely to be less intelligent’, study claims
#30Imagine a democracy in which you vote your IQ from an official test. If your IQ was measured at 114 your vote counts 114 times, etc. This seems obviously unfair. But would it improve the results? My intuition fails me here, I can't predict. I wonder if that rule would have swung Brexit the other way? That would give an idea of the magnitude of the difference.
Though not a measure of IQ, the USA used to require landownership as the litmus test for voting. It might be a similar enough metric.
Not a valid comparison.
Imagine, if you will, a world with no income tax, no sales tax, because those things were very difficult (if not impossible) to reliably know. Instead what you could know is real estate ownership, because that was tracked by the government. Then you also had a new country that was frustrated with taxation without representation. So you form those who represent the country as those who pay taxes.
The availability of land in those days it was easy enough for anyone who wanted to get it. It was also a way to turn a citizen in to a tax payer. Equating this to IQ is similar in the same way that ice cubes and electrical arcs are the same.