" The vast majority though actually researched it very well and cast a well considered vote."
Do you really believe that statement? Vast majority ? I would suggest that it is extrememely unlikely bearing in mind the literacy of the average voter!
I quote from the Telegraph - but it is well documented else where,
"The Government's own figures show that 5.2 million workers in Britain today are "functionally illiterate", and 6.8 million are "functionally innumerate".
"Functional illiteracy" is not the same as the blank inability to read anything – but the bar for competence is not set very high. If you can't read the stories in The Sun, or the signs in a station indicating from which platform your train departs, you are functionally illiterate. Similarly, "functional innumeracy" involves such things as being unable to calculate the change you are owed, or how much you spend every month on regular purchases.
That so many people are unable to manage tasks which a reasonably bright 10-year-old could execute with ease is an indication of just how bad things are. The Government has said that it wants to get 50 per cent of the population up to the standard where they can get into university. The reality is that it can't even get 50 per cent of people up to the level of a C grade in GCSE English and Maths: nearly 23.8 million people, or three quarters of the adult working population, do not possess literacy and numeracy skills to that elementary level.
The gap between the Government's endless celebration of how brilliantly pupils are doing, and the dismal reality of low levels of achievement, yawns ever-wider. Vernon Brown is a shop assistant. He was interviewed on Radio 4's Today as an example of someone who left school eight years ago functionally illiterate. He emerged from the school gates not with one or two GCSEs, but with seven."
A more appropriate closing line to your post should possibly be - Never over estimate others intelligence.
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