People who voted for Brexit ‘more likely to be less intelligent’, study claims
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Re: People who voted for Brexit ‘more likely to be less intelligent’, study claims
#2And “more likely to be manipulated” too?
Re: People who voted for Brexit ‘more likely to be less intelligent’, study claims
#3Massively 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
Re: People who voted for Brexit ‘more likely to be less intelligent’, study claims
#4And what about the people who initiated Brexit?
Re: People who voted for Brexit ‘more likely to be less intelligent’, study claims
#5Imagine 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.
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Re: People who voted for Brexit ‘more likely to be less intelligent’, study claims
#7Massively 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
Is a study unhelpful if it leads to helpful questions?
Re: People who voted for Brexit ‘more likely to be less intelligent’, study claims
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Re: People who voted for Brexit ‘more likely to be less intelligent’, study claims
#9Imagine 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.
The people with high IQ may vote to further the interests of people with high IQ, effectively oppressing the people with low IQ.
Re: People who voted for Brexit ‘more likely to be less intelligent’, study claims
#10Massively 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.