A couple more snippets on the EU referendum.
Tom Peck in yesterday’s Independent highlights that British public wrong about nearly everything to do with the EU according to a recent Ipsos MORI poll.
So it should be no surprise that, according to today’s Independent, 55% of people intend to vote LEAVE despite that warnings about the economic impact of Brexit appear to be hitting home. According to the ORB survey 80% of people think leaving the EU would pose some risk, while 19 per cent think it would pose no risk at all. Nevertheless a majority of both groups are still prepared to take the risk.
Meanwhile my friend Katy in a blog post yesterday likens getting people to understand the actual facts (as opposed to that they think the facts are) in the referendum debate to trying to teach children how to pick up marks in exams even if they eventually get the answers wrong. Having tried both she has found much sadness.
Which just goes to prove what I was highlighting the other day: that even thinking people do not understand risk and consistently under-estimate risks.
Gawdelpus!