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When the data supports and reinforces previously held suspicions and assumptions, it should confirm those suspicions and assumptions.The conclusions cannot be made based on the data. Simple as that.
Or you ignore it because it is inconvenient and challenges your perception.
So therefore it is a logical assumption that younger people are probably better educated.We do not know, the education levels by age of the sample. Nobody on this thread has made an argument that it is valid to compare the education levels of a 65 year old with that of a 30 year old, for the likely reason that 30 year olds are more likely to be educated to degree level.
If younger people are better educated (reasonable assumption) and Labour voters tend to be younger than Tory voters, (based on evidence) it is a reasonable extrapolation that Labour voters are better educated than Tory voters.Therefore the conclusion that labour voters are better educated that conservative cannot be made, once we take account of the difference in voting age.
Who made that (by inference) assertion?Couple that with the latest polls and there cannot be argument (by inference) that the conservatives are deliberately dumbing down the electorate by under funding education in order to secure votes. Its beyond stupid.