More Evidence that 1 in 3 Americans is Completely Clueless
In this post, I marvelled at the fact that 1 in 3 Americans thought our government was somehow involved in the 9/11 attacks and could also not name the year the attacks occurred. And now, here is even more evidence that just about one third of us are off the deep end:
So, here's what I suggest: Look around the room. If you see two other people that aren't crazy, well, you know....
posted by Brian at
10:59 AM
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I used to work with a guy who was a genuine conspiracy theorist. Former NASA consultant, swore to god that most the storylines on The X Files were gleaned from real events. Lovely guy. I have no point in telling you about him, other than this reminded me of him.
I think the item that scares me the most on this list is "cannot say in what year the September 11 attacks took place." Um, it wasn't that long ago, people!
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jason, at 11:49 AM, August 18, 2006
Polling is something we covered extensively back in my Former Life As A Communications Grad Student. You gotta be careful about stuff like this -- basically, you can write a poll to get *anyone* to say *anything*, so it's important to check the methodology of the poll being used.
That being said, yeah, people can be idiots.
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Jeff Porten, at 5:34 PM, August 18, 2006
Agreed, but with this many questions & (what we'd consider "strange" answers), I'm also wondering if there's anything to the theory that roughly 1/3 of people will say "yes" to just about any question.
Anything like that ever come up at Annenberg?
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Brian, at 12:47 AM, August 20, 2006
Jason:
I think the item that scares me the most on this list is "cannot say in what year the September 11 attacks took place." Um, it wasn't that long ago, people!
Well, obviously, these folks don't know that, now do they?!? :-(
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Brian, at 12:56 AM, August 20, 2006
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