Interesting Links for 29-11-2018

[andrewducker]

Brexit: More voters would prefer to stay in EU than accept Theresa May's deal

(tags: uk europe polls )

Wriggly, giggle, puffball: What makes some words funny?

(tags: language humour )

Teachers of Reddit discuss positive trends they have noticed in today's youth

(tags: children GoodNews viaElfy )

New research finds there is no “right thing” to say when you want to be supportive

(tags: empathy support psychology )

Dropping Acid - how playing with technology caused a whole new musical genre

(tags: music history Technology )

Brexit: Referendum may be inevitable - John McDonnell

(tags: UK europe referendum )

The First Labor Strike in History (in ancient Egypt)

(tags: history strike egypt )

Comments

[doug]

But the polling in TFA linked above says Remain is preferred to the May Deal (by some margin), and the May Deal preferred to No Deal, but doesn't give figures for a match up betwen Remain vs No Deal.

I bet you could find a fair number of people who would have non-transitive preferences here, though, because people are like that.

[doug]

There's also this Survation data, fieldwork 27 Nov, which gives:

Govt Brexit Deal: 35%
No deal: 41%
Don't know: 24%

Govt Brexit Deal: 37%
Remain: 46%
Don't know: 17%

No Deal: 40%
Remain: 50%
Don't know: 11%

That's clearly Remain as the Condorcet winner, and the Govt Brexit Deal/May's deal as the Condorcet loser. But note also that even if there's apparently intransitive preferences in the two-way ties, the number of 'Don't knows' might explain it without requiring any individual respondent to have intransitive preferences.

It evidently depends who you survey and how you survey them.