Well-educated people often believe themselves to be more left wing than they actually are, a study has found.
From the page: “University graduates are less able to recognise their conservative tendencies than people who leave school at 16, according to the research.
Its author suggests that adults fail to notice as the political opinions of their youth weaken as they join the workforce and start families.
Additionally, because well-eductated people tend to socialise with others who have conservative views, their perception of where the ideoligical middle ground lies is skewed, wrote James Rockey, an economics lecturer at the University of Leicester.
However, earning a high salary can jolt employees into a better awareness of where they sit in the political spectrum, he added.
“Politics is social,” Mr Rockey said. “There are two main factors–the first is that people compare themselves not to the population as a whole but to…
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