| Interesting study on the public perception of UK net migration 08:13 - May 21 with 303 views | StokieBlue |
Even though this isn't the case and net migration has fallen a lot as have the number of small boat crossings, voters across the political spectrum believe that isn't the case [1].
In the specific case of asylum seekers:
"The researchers found that people believe individuals seeking asylum account for 33% of immigration, when in reality it is about 9%."
Going to be very hard for anyone to cut through that narrative by the looks of it, especially when Farage lies about the subject:
"The party’s leader, Nigel Farage, has falsely claimed the drop in net migration was largely the result of British emigration – not the fall in overseas arrivals."
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[1]. https://www.theguardian.com/wo |  |
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| Interesting study on the public perception of UK net migration on 08:21 - May 21 with 256 views | Herbivore |
Hardly surprising when immigration has dominated media coverage and politics for years now, often based on half-truths or outright lies. When you create a moral panic over an issue it shouldn't come as a surprise when people hold distorted beliefs about an issue. That said, it's worrying that people's beliefs persist even when shown demonstrable evidence that shows those beliefs to be wrong. We see it on here fairly frequently. I would assume many of the people surveyed here simply haven't looked at the data so are going purely off feels, what's really worrying is when people continue to go off their feels when they've been shown evidence to the contrary. That's when a society is truly lost. |  |
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| Interesting study on the public perception of UK net migration on 08:36 - May 21 with 222 views | NthQldITFC |
| Interesting study on the public perception of UK net migration on 08:21 - May 21 by Herbivore |
Hardly surprising when immigration has dominated media coverage and politics for years now, often based on half-truths or outright lies. When you create a moral panic over an issue it shouldn't come as a surprise when people hold distorted beliefs about an issue. That said, it's worrying that people's beliefs persist even when shown demonstrable evidence that shows those beliefs to be wrong. We see it on here fairly frequently. I would assume many of the people surveyed here simply haven't looked at the data so are going purely off feels, what's really worrying is when people continue to go off their feels when they've been shown evidence to the contrary. That's when a society is truly lost. |
'I would assume many of the people surveyed here simply haven't looked at the data so are going purely off feels, what's really worrying is when people continue to go off their feels when they've been shown evidence to the contrary. That's when a society is truly lost.'
That's the reason underlying so many ways in which we're failing catastrophically in our societal evolution as an inventive species on a constrained planet. |  |
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| Interesting study on the public perception of UK net migration on 09:28 - May 21 with 125 views | Radlett_blue |
| Interesting study on the public perception of UK net migration on 08:21 - May 21 by Herbivore |
Hardly surprising when immigration has dominated media coverage and politics for years now, often based on half-truths or outright lies. When you create a moral panic over an issue it shouldn't come as a surprise when people hold distorted beliefs about an issue. That said, it's worrying that people's beliefs persist even when shown demonstrable evidence that shows those beliefs to be wrong. We see it on here fairly frequently. I would assume many of the people surveyed here simply haven't looked at the data so are going purely off feels, what's really worrying is when people continue to go off their feels when they've been shown evidence to the contrary. That's when a society is truly lost. |
We have become far more cynical as a society. This is actually very unhealthy for society - many people don't trust others, let alone politicians, people perceive violent crime is commonplace (it isn't) and given the clickbait nature of the internet driven media, it only seems likely to get worse. |  |
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| Interesting study on the public perception of UK net migration on 09:33 - May 21 with 97 views | wkj |
Sorting out something we're angry about has become more appealing than making something better for the future when it comes to politics. Whilst immigration is something that everyone should have a keen interest in for one reason or another, it really is a political smokescreen that covers up the greater issues that plague us. |  |
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