And they’re just the tip of the iceberg. It’s not quite as simple as you think it is.
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I’m not sure it tells us very much at all once you take into account, online news sources, which generations are more likely to accessonline sources, and which news sources those generations are more likely to read.
Not to mention the purpose of buying the paper. Some buy the cheapest one that happens to come with tv guide and sports fixtures The metro is free on buses and trains and the s*n is less than a quid.
What does your mind being a function of biology have to do with my description of your mind as primitive?
Human minds have developed the ability to understand concepts and information without having them viewed through the lens of personal experience. If they don’t exist in your personal experience they don’t exist. And if something does happen in your experience that’s all that the world is.
You constantly fail to grasp that, hence I don’t think my description of primitive is an insult. I’m just being accurate.
You missed out the mail which is the top paid for newspaper.
Pretty sad.
Or boobs.
I don’t think any of them show boobs anymore.
Unless you count the politics sections.
Read your original post. Then consider how inane it is.
As for 16 year olds voting, it’s probably not even an issue.
Young people in general aren’t engaged politically and probably won’t register or actually vote.
Most of those that are actually likely to turn up and vote will probably have done as much ‘research’ as the majority of adults who will turn up and vote, and the overall effect on results will be negligible.
The main danger is that it becomes a hilarious trend on TikTok to write in Harry Styles on their ballot.
I think the more accurate assessment is that younger people vote left and older people vote right. Something about experience?
That’s the received wisdom and there is some data to back it up but there is more evidence that it is generational. There is also the case that demographics change as people get older. As one of the biggest determinants of life expectancy is wealth, older age groups contain less of the working class people who are likely to vote for left-wing parties.
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I think this was the article I read about voting intentions of Millennials.
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Are you advocating Monachy?
Oh wait that’s turned to those in their 90s now. I do believe that once upon a time some very young Kings and Emporers came to be.
Surely it’s more to do with having more to lose when one gets older. Young people with few possessions or responsibilities are likely to be more open to societal change or redistribution of wealth, whereas those later in life, who have career, home, family to protect are likely to be less supportive of anything that threatens their security.
However, just to introduce the dreaded ‘someone I know’ example, my Mum has become ever more left wing as she ages. Once a Liberal, she now fills Facebook with Dennis Skinner and Tony Benn quotes.
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Explains a lot.
The 200,000 year history of our species is a battle against biology.
Funny how people are happy to not die at thirty from curable maladies, live in a society with law and order, and would prefer girls didn’t get pregnant at twelve, but are so keen to whip put the ‘it’s a biological fact’ argument when it backs up a pre-existing prejudice.
I’m just about old enough to remember ‘it’s against biology’ being used to justify oppressing gay people. The battlegrounds change, but the arguments remain tediously consistent.
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I believe ones cognitive abilities and mental agility deteriorate with age. I’m not sure what we can draw from this regarding voting intention?
Is this conversation still about the Scottish gender recognition bill?
In which case, I totally agree that puberty isn’t the time to allow people to make decisions about life changing surgery.
So just as well there is no such proposal.
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Thank you. Yes, I think I explained why young people are more likely to be radical than their elders rather well.
Changing gender surely ends up with surgery though?
Not necessarily, it’s a spectrum.
I don’t have data on that, but in any case, as the NHS queue is so long, they won’t get an appointment before a few years.
Now more seriously, it’s a process which requires multiple appointments with psychologists and I doubt you could do that before you’re 18.