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Janet

In article >,
lid says...
> > > Of course not all, but those are just the plain statistics.
> >
> > No, what they are is a clumsy comparison of two sets of unrelated
> > statistics from separate sources. Which is why your link ends with
> >
> > "Mandatory caveat: Correlation never implies causation. It?s possible
> > some of these matches are a coincidence, particularly in cases in which
> > the statistical relationships are weaker. And extrapolating results from
> > broad geographic data always carries a significant chance of error".
>
> What that means is that they may not have voted a certain way BECAUSE of
> their education level. But it doesn't change the fact that the higher a
> person's education level, the more likely they were to vote REMAIN.
>

Here's an example of how wrong your link is. It claims

"People in areas where many residents have college degrees were far
more likely to vote ?Remain,? . Hosting a sizable immigrant population
seemed to sway communities against leaving in the European Union, and
denser cities tended against ?Leave? overall."

Yet here's what actually happened in exactly such an area;

The densely populated North West of England cities ( high migrant
populations, a high university-educated population, a high number of
working class people). 53 per cent of the region backed LEAVE.

Janet