If I could inject just one fact into the political debate on referendum votes, it would be this one >>https://twitter.com/robfordmancs/status/1113775078624382979 …
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I didn't call them uneducated and wouldn't call them uneducated. But the pattern of choice among those who left school at 16 (regardless of grades) is similar among older and younger generations. Ditto with older and younger grads.
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Control for education in a statistical analysis of Leave vote and the age difference disappears. It is formal education - and the value differences it proxies for - which drives the different. To be clear, this does NOT imply ANYTHING abt diffs in intelligence, knowledge etc.
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I understand that but it is often used by Remainers to claim exactly that!
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Sure and I realise that is both unfair and v frustrating which is why I work hard not to make that claim. But th connection between formal education and Brexit vote is strong and robust. Therefore needs to be discussed.
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It's no great mystery. The education system is overwhelmingly left / remain centric.
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Not the explanation
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Why.? Are you trying to tell me there is no bias in unversities.. surely the bias rubs off on students.
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I don’t think there is any bias but bias is not the mechanism. If it was the effect would not arise among ppl doing degrees where issue of bias doesn’t arise. There’s no “liberal snowflake” way to teach quantum mechanics. But the effect occurs across the board.
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I wasn’t particularly clever when I was young. But as I got older, I like to believe I’ve got wiser. And now, along with 17.4 million others, I can see the Emperor is standing there, stark bollock naked.
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You are right, my friend, humans are the weak link in all our systems. Communism would work until the greedy got going. Capitalist markets would work until the greedy got going. Is there a happy medium somewhere between the two?
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well if you removed the concentrations of power in markets and just left them as a product of people's decisions...
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University = staying on at school for 3yrs getting pumped full of more information to regurgitate in exams. All it proves is you can read & you have a memory. Its no test of common sense, initiative, creativity, imagination, how to apply knowledge or to survive in the real world
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@jameskirkup Most academics have been in institutions since age 4. School then university & have no concept of the real world. And many are barking mad & corruptpic.twitter.com/7Crz6SVuS6
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Your missing the point Julia. Students are drip fed liberalism, anyone who doesn't agree are ostracised or made to feel unintelligent. This has been relayed to myself by own kids. Whom btw voted leave
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Having a poxy Degree in "Media Studies or "Performing Arts" doesn't mark anyone as being "educated". Real education is far more substantial than handing over £9,000 and receiving a certificate.
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Hey, it's not easy getting a BA in Safe Space Maintenance
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You could back then as well, but a D in those days was as good as an A today. I’m doing an OU degree course, and very good it is too. I’m getting distinctions all the way in maths and physics. I looked up an A level physics paper from the 1960s and it was absolutely terrifying!
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There's absolutely no comparison between those who went up before Blair's reforms and those graduating now. When only 6% went up and A levels were of much higher standard, so were the entrants. Only one in a hundred applicants got into medical school. Think about that.
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