Timeline for Why is there a strong link between education and voting Remain?
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| Oct 21, 2019 at 13:17 | comment | added | Rinky Stingpiece | Many working class people are in contact with immigrants (even married to them), and many immigrants are (working class, and) comfortable aligning against the EU and with, for example, the Commonwealth. There is an odd assumption by left-leaning diversity daleks that buy-in to the remain agenda corrolates with buy-in to the diversity agenda, which tends to be overtly supported by remainers. Forgetting that many immigrants are older immigrants, and buy into the Commonwealth agenda and not the EU one. This is true for some Asians, Africans, and Caribbeans, for whom, the EU is less relevant. | |
| Oct 19, 2019 at 7:03 | comment | added | dandavis | @zibadawatimmy: it literally says "would cause them"; that's causal. My problem is more that it claims "being educated has no bearing", but then says educated people's education (and it's associated experiences/opportunities) cause a Remain vote. Citing Remain-slanted data from people with "opportunities to get in contact with immigrants" w/o education, ex: people in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, would support the claim, but I don't see anything like that here. | |
| Oct 18, 2019 at 23:50 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | @dandavis It says "assuming the above...is correct", which is not endorsing a causal relationship, it's proposing a hypothetical for purposes of demonstration. And in fact this is an appropriate argument to make, as single statistics void of analysis and context are misleading at best. People all too easily make inferences and draw conclusions that are not actually supported by the data and science, or may even be contradicted by it. Which is exactly why you see people throwing them out left and right when debating whatever the politically contentious topic of the day is. | |
| Oct 18, 2019 at 21:20 | comment | added | dandavis | your first paragraphs argue against causation, but the last one endorses a causal relationship. | |
| Oct 18, 2019 at 15:57 | history | answered | user28580 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |