University students ain’t what they used to be…
UK university students believe the EU referendum is key to their future, but almost two-thirds do not know when it is, suggests research.
So? If you are too thick to educate yourself, you take the consequences – although what these people are doing in university baffles me. Probably doing a mickey mouse degree in some useless bollocks, I expect.
Oddly enough, nowhere in the piece is personal responsibility mentioned…
They’re educated, not intelligent. There’s a huge difference…
Intelligent people educate themselves 😉
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Depends what the student is studying, for example an engineering student may give a different answer to someone asking a political question than someone who is an arts degree student. Also does it mention what or how the question was asked? After spending an afternoon in a drawing office as a student I know how I would have responded to a questionnaire. The answer would have started with an f and ended with an f.
That’s always been my response to all survey questions.
Fluff?
To be fair, I couldn’t have told you the exact date straight off the top of my head. Had someone put me on the spot I would have had to say that it was the twenty something of June. Obviously I will make sure that I know near the time so that I don’t miss it but, had I been surveyed, I would have been marked down as one of the gormless idiots that didn’t know.
Being apathetic towards politics is not necessarily correlated with academic intelligence. When I was at university, engineering and science types were generally more naive and uninformed about politics than those reading arts subjects such as History or English. However what does seem to be corroborated by polling evidence is that the better educated tend to be more supportive of remaining in the EU.
“Those belonging to the AB social class – usually in higher managerial, administrative and professional occupations – support the EU by 62 to 38 per cent. Meanwhile, people in the lower C2 and DE social grades have net dissatisfaction with the institution.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/21/eu-referendum-who-in-britain-wants-to-leave-and-who-wants-to-rem/
I suspect that this is true. However, age is also a factor. I’ve seen the EEC morph into the EU. I was supportive of the former, but despise the latter. My age group (50+) is more likely to be EU sceptic, irrespective of intelligence.
Well my friends are mostly in the 40s and 50s and mostly university educated and are all supportive of staying in the EU, except the boyfriend of a friend, who is a communist and has this quaint notion that if the EU falls then people will embrace Stalinism again.
What’s that about anecdote not being evidence? 😉