Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much?

• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So I read the study, first of all the paper aknowledges that there’s a several point swing in voting preference between non winners and people who won less than £500 which strongly implies people who play the lottery are more likely to vote right wing to begin with. Secondly even for large wins the swing was only around 18%. At worst money does not make everyone a bad person, more like 1/5 people.

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  • leftascenter@tarte.nuage-libre.fr ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So you read one study, and didn’t know social science are about mean changes overe a population and not absolute changes on individuals.

    Good start, now I’ll let you dig some more on the issue.

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    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It outright says:
      “13% of non-winners switch to favour the right-wing. By contrast, nearly 18% of the winners who get more than 500 pounds switch to the right-wing party”
      That is a description of induviduals, 18% of people become more right wing, not 100% of people become 18% more right wing.

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