Brexit Thread

[Idaho]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36803544

Knee jerks? People who have a limbic response to social issues?

[Greyblades]

Christ, for a second there I was starting agree with the politicians want to defund the BBC, I feel disgusting.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

"The British Election Study's internet panel survey of 2015-16 asked a sample of over 24,000 individuals about their views on [the death penalty] and whether they would vote to leave the EU. The graph below, restricted to White British respondents, shows almost no statistically significant difference in EU vote intention between rich and poor. By contrast, the probability of voting Brexit rises from around 20% for those most opposed to the death penalty to 70% for those most in favour. Wealthy people who back capital punishment back Brexit. Poor folk who oppose the death penalty support Remain."

So at least some of this data is based on voting intentions, doesn't really account for people like me who got into the Booth and thought "you know what, I want us out".

The second graph is even stranger, it measures one axis from 0.05 to 0.25.

We're also lacking the curve indicating what percentage of people actually hold what view. How many people "Strongly agree" that the Death Penalty is appropriate, and under what circumstances?

Finally, if you look at that first graph again it looks like people who are ambivilient about the Death Penalty were predicted to have a roughly 40% probability of voting to leave the EU - if that's correct it suggests that the average Briton is somewhere between "Don't know" and "Agree". That's probably true, at far as I know every survey taken of the general UK population comes back with a majority in favour - except for one last year: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32061822

It'll be interesting to see what this year's survey brings in data, it might go up again.

[Husar]

So the next referendum will be about reintroducing the death penalty and harsher punishments for sex offenders?