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Clearly a load of Remainer nonsense!

Brexit: Clever people 'more likely to vote Remain' in EU referendum, study shows

Being more clever has been "strongly linked" to voting to Remain in the EU in the 2016 Brexit referendum, a study has shown.

Researchers from the University of Bath looked at whether cognitive skills including memory, verbal fluency and numerical reasoning were linked to how people decided to vote. It found that only 40% of people with the lowest cognitive ability voted Remain, while 73% of those with the highest cognitive ability voted remain.

Lead study author Dr Chris Dawson said: “Depending on which side of the debate you fall, reading this may fill you with anger or joy. However, both these emotions are an error of judgement." He warned the findings are based on "average differences", adding there is a "huge amount of overlap" between the spread of Remain and Leave cognitive abilities. "Indeed, we calculated that approximately 36% of Leave voters had higher cognitive ability than the average (mean) Remain voter,” he said.

Dr Dawson, from the University of Bath’s School of Management, said the study added to existing academic evidence showing that people with low cognitive ability are "more susceptible to misinformation and disinformation". "People with lower cognitive ability and analytical thinking skills find it harder to detect and discount this type of information," he added.

The University of Bath study used a nationally representative sample of 6,366 individuals. The data came from Understanding Society, the largest longitudinal study of UK households.

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