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12% of voters is not 12% of the population.

People who didn't vote, People who are too young to vote, People who cannot vote. Etc

Voters as a group is meant to reflect that proportion of the population that is involved with the political process at the basic level.




Good point. Only about 50% of Britons voted in the Brexit referendum, for a turnout of 72% [0].

So the inequality is twice what I made it out to be there. I don't think it changes my comparisons all that much: we don't usually consider infants when measuring inequality in wealth or educational attainments either, or we use their caregivers as a proxy.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European...




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