Blog ≫ 2023 ≫ People with lower cognitive ability were more likely to vote for Brexit
That's not me being unkind, that's science!
It's in The Times, the newspaper of record. But I can't read more as it's behind a paywall. I got this much though:
The cleverer people are, the more likely they were to vote to stay in the European Union, a study has found.
Among those Britons in the top 10 per cent by a measure of cognitive performance, 73 per cent voted remain in 2016. Among those in the bottom 10 per cent, only 40 per cent did.
The relationship persisted, albeit less strongly, even when taking into account factors such as income, education and age, implying that it was not solely a reflection of cultural effects. It also remained when the scientists looked at couples in which husbands and wives voted in different ways. The remain-voting partner was, they found, more likely to do better on cognitive tests.