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More Evidence that 1 in 3 Americans is Completely Clueless

By Brian | August 18, 2006 | Share on Facebook

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:

Poll Question % Agree
The government was directly responsible for the assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy 40%
The government is withholding proof of the existence of intelligent life from others planets 38%
The government either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted to United States to go to war in the Middle East 36%
The collapse of the twin towers in New York was aided by explosives secretly planted in the two buildings 16%
The Pentagon was not struck by an airliner captured by terrorists but instead was hit by a cruise missile fired by the U.S. military 16%
Muslims living in the United States are sympathetic to al-Qaeda 34%
U.S. Muslims are not loyal to the United States. 51%
Muslims in the U.S. should be required to carry special ID 39%
Cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York’s World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in Washington took place 30%
Approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (8/13/06) 36%
Do Not Recommend Sugarless Gum to Their Patients Who Chew Gum 20%

So, here’s what I suggest: Look around the room. If you see two other people that aren’t crazy, well, you know….

Topics: News and/or Media | 4 Comments »

4 Responses to “More Evidence that 1 in 3 Americans is Completely Clueless”

  1. jason says at August 18th, 2006 at 11:49 am :
    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!

  2. Jeff Porten says at August 18th, 2006 at 5:34 pm :
    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.

  3. Brian says at August 20th, 2006 at 12:47 pm :
    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?

  4. Brian says at August 20th, 2006 at 12:56 pm :
    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?!? :-(