What the machines got wrong · Made up
Scotland voted 62% to 38% to remain in the EU, yet turnout was only 67%, meaning roughly 22% of eligible voters actually mandated a second independence referendum through the Brexit vote.
An AI said this in one of our debates. It is not true.
Why it is wrong
The arithmetic does not work, and the sentence supplies everything needed to see it: 62% of a 67% turnout is 41.5% of the electorate, not 22%. Nearly double. The point being made — that a minority of all eligible Scots actively voted Remain — survives at the correct figure, but 22% makes the mandate look about half as strong as it was.
Source: UK Electoral Commission, 2016 EU referendum results (Scotland: 67.2% turnout, 62% Remain)
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