Gosh thats a surprise, theres a much higher number of people age 25 and up, than there are 18 to 25.
Who wouldve thought that eh?
You are still struggling with the arithmetic.
Admittedly, I was a bit rushed in making my arithmetical argument yesterday, so I'll repeat it slowly and clearly now.
First of all, let us remind ourselves of your original comment with which I disagreed
Notch said "remainers are likely to be young people".
I disagreed.
The age demographic of the population is as follows:
Admittedly these figures are from the 2011 census. As the population is getting older, any error is in your favour.
You will notice that the age group for the younger people is 18 to 39 years. So where you plucked your age group of 18 to 25 from is anyone's guess.
Then we look at the voting probability or actuality, by age groups.:
Let us adopt an average of
64.5% for the age groups of 18 to 25 and 25 to 39.
We know the electorate amount in 2018, which is:
Admittedly, this is a later figure than that for the referendum. We also know that there was a surge of registrations after the referendum, so the actual figure for 2016 would have been slightly less. But if we use this figure, any error will again be in your favour.
Thus we can easily calculate how many younger voters will or did vote:
Assuming that all 18 to 39 year olds registered to vote:
29% of 45,775,800 gives us 13,274,982 young voters.
I've added a bit of colour to indicate which percentage is applied when and where.
Now of those 13,274,982 registered younger voters,
64.5% of 13,274,982 did vote, giving us 8,562,363 young voters that did vote.
Now we can take these calculations even further because from JohnD's link we know the voting patterns.
Let's take the 18-24 group, and the 25-34 group, and the 35-44 group. Again any errors will be in your favour.
Let us assume an average of 73% + 62% + 52%, gives us
62.3%.
We know how many young voters did vote. It was 8,562,363
Now we can calculate approximately how many young voters voted Remain.
Thus
62.3% of 8,562,363 gives us 5,334,352 young voters voted Remain.
We know the Remain vote was over 16,000,000. For simplicity, let us use 16,000,000. Again any error will be in your favour.
Now we know, without doubt, that more older voters voted Remain than younger voters, by a margin of about 2:1
Your comment has been arithmetically disproved.
Respond with personal insults, throw in any number of irrelevancies, and tap-dance around the issue all you like.
Alternatively, follow your own advice.
A clever person is one that is able to adapt and change his opinion.
A non clever person is one unable to admit being wrong,