Two thirds of UK young people fearful of post-Brexit prospects

Thursday, September 14th 2017 - 17:36 UTC

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More than two-thirds of young people in the UK have an “international outlook” and many fear for their prospects once the UK leaves the EU, says a report. Ipsos Mori questioned a representative group of almost 2,000 18 to 30-year-olds for a study by cross-party think tank Demos, for the British Council. Read full article

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Lightning
These same cynical and entitled “youths”
who didn't vote or held the referendum in contempt, are now upset at the result of the democratic process.

Too bad.

Just like the enlightened Londoners who accuse the rest of England of being ignorant and fringe-dwelling xenophobes.

Suck it up - you're in the minority.
Sep 14th, 2017 - 10:29 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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DemonTree
They should have bloody well voted then, shouldn't they?

@Lightning
If the shoe fits...
Sep 14th, 2017 - 11:39 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
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Lightning
démontrée

feminine singular of a pretentious condescending Londoner
Sep 15th, 2017 - 02:46 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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Clyde15
There are approx. 7.8 million in this age group. 2000 is 0.0256%. So they extrapolate from this that “5.2 million feel fearful about leaving the EU.
An even larger percentage probably feel fearful about leaving home!

I think casting the runes would be as valuable as many of these ”reports”
Sep 15th, 2017 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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DemonTree
@Lightning
Oi, who're you calling a bloody Londoner?

@Clyde15
Ipsos Mori are a proper survey company, who presumably know what they are doing. Assuming you choose your sample properly, you don't need to ask that many people to get an answer within say 5% accuracy. I can explain the maths if you like?
Sep 15th, 2017 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
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Clyde15
You are assuming that people tell the truth in opinion polls !!
Sep 16th, 2017 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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DemonTree
What, like the shy Tories? It certainly needs to be born in mind, but the risk of people lying is much more significant when it's about something highly contentious or very personal.

Besides, you can't go round saying data is all rubbish; some of us will be out of a job!
Sep 16th, 2017 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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golfcronie
“ Assuming you choose your sample properly”. Is that not a biased sample then? What's a proper sample? Some down and outs or some college boys?
Sep 17th, 2017 - 09:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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DemonTree
Depends what you're trying to measure. If you want the opinions of college boys then a sample of them is fine. If you want to measure the whole population then it doesn't matter if you interview 2000 college boys or 200,000, you won't be getting the right answer. Basically you divide people up into groups according to what you want to find out and make sure you ask the right number of people in each group. So if 3.5% of the people you're interested in are students, you want 3.5% of your sample to be students too.
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