People with higher cognitive ability may have been more likely to vote to “Remain” during the Brexit referendum – a vote that decided whether the United Kingdom should leave or remain a member of the European Union – according to a new study.
  • Sagifurius@lemm.ee
    401·
    10 months ago

    Scientits have discovered more intelligent people tend to make better decisions

  • Cypher@lemmy.world
    23·
    10 months ago

    About half of all people are unsurprised and the other half believe the study is propaganda.

    Democracy doesn’t work thanks to how many idiots there are and the extremely intelligent and selfish oligarchs who mislead the idiots.

    • acockworkorange
      3·
      10 months ago

      Extremely greedy yes, I wouldn’t call them extremely intelligent though. It doesn’t take a lot to reign in a bunch of room temperature IQ.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago

    You’ve got to remember that these Torries are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

  • Damage@feddit.it
    12·
    10 months ago

    The great cognitive abilities needed to understand “apes together strong”

  • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
    8·
    10 months ago

    There’s probably a correlation with people who believe things written on the side of a bus too.

    Except the route number, that’s probably true.