Interesting paper on cognitive ability and voting in the #Brexit referendum: they found people with higher cognitive ability were less likely to vote for Brexit.
The authors hypothesise that people with lower cognitive ability may have been easier to fool with all the misinformation coming from the Brexit campaign.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0289312
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