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30 Survey Results That Sound False But Are Actually True
Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog,
You will be shocked at what some Americans actually believe.
For example, close to 90 percent of us believe that we are eating a healthy diet, and yet more than third of the population is officially obese. 65 percent of all Americans say that they are dissatisfied with the government, and yet nearly a third of us would be willing to submit to a "TSA body cavity search" in order to get on an airplane.
As you will see below, Americans are angrier and more frustrated with government and with their lives than ever before, but we also exhibit almost unbelievable levels of sloth and apathy. Some of the numbers below are quite funny, and others are absolutely stunning. But they all say something about who we have become as a nation.
The following are 30 survey results that sound false but that are actually true...
#1 According to a recent Rasmussen Reports survey, 52 percent of Americans "do not think the economy is fair to those willing to work hard".
#2 70 percent of all Americans do not "feel engaged or inspired at their jobs".
#3 According to another recent Rasmussen Reports survey, 59 percent of Americans believe that "less government involvement in the economy" would help reduce the size of the income gap in this country. (And those 59 percent are actually correct.)
#4 20 percent of all government workers and 26 percent of all Obama supporters consider the Tea Party to be "the biggest terror threat" that America is facing.
#5 Approximately 30 percent of all American workers have $1,000 or less saved up for retirement.
#6 A worldwide survey conducted by the Worldwide Independent Network and Gallup found that 24 percent of people around the world consider the United States to be the biggest threat to peace. Pakistan was in second place with just 8 percent.
#7 60 percent of Americans report feeling "angry or irritable". Two years ago that number was at 50 percent.
#8 36 percent of Americans admit that they have yelled at a customer service agent during the past year.
#9 29 percent of Americans believe that "cloud computing" involves an actual cloud.
#10 A survey of employers that currently pay minimum wage to at least some of their employees found that 38 percent of them would start laying off employees if the minimum wage was raised.
#11 One survey found that 56 percent of Americans believe that it is okay for the government to track "the telephone records of millions of Americans" in order to keep us safe.
#12 When George W. Bush was president, 61 percent of Democrats considered NSA surveillance to be "unacceptable", but now that Obama is in the White House, only 34 percent of them consider it to be "unacceptable".
#13 67 percent of Americans support the use of unmanned drones in "homeland security missions" inside the United States.
#14 One survey found that 51 percent of all Americans agree with this statement: "it is necessary to give up some civil liberties in order to make the country safe from terrorism."
#15 Close to one-third of all Americans would be willing to submit to a "TSA body cavity search" in order to fly.
#16 65 percent of Americans are dissatisfied "with the U.S. system of government and its effectiveness". That is the highest level of dissatisfaction that Gallup has ever recorded.
#17 Only 8 percent of Americans believe that Congress is doing a "good" or "excellent" job.
#18 70 percent of Americans do not have confidence that the federal government will "make progress on the important problems and issues facing the country in 2014".
#19 According to a survey conducted by the National Geographic Society, only 37 percent of all Americans in the 18 to 24-year-old age range can find the nation of Iraq on a map.
#20 Close to 25 percent of all Americans do not know that the United States declared independence from Great Britain.
#21 Right now, 29 percent of all Americans under the age of 35 are living with their parents.
#22 According to one survey, 24 percent of all U.S. teens that have a sexually-transmitted disease say that they still have unprotected sex.
#23 Approximately one out of every five teenage girls in the United States actually wants to be a teenage mother.
#24 The percentage of Americans that "believe there are signs that aliens have visited Earth" is actually higher than the percentage of Americans that believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
#25 According to one recent survey, only 35 percent of all Americans say that they are better off financially than they were a year ago.
#26 It is hard to believe, but 56 percent of all Americans are considered to have "subprime credit" at this point.
#27 89.7 percent of all Americans believe that they are eating a healthy diet. Meanwhile, approximately 36 percent of all Americans are obese.
#28 44 percent of all Americans do not have a first-aid kit in their homes.
#29 48 percent of all Americans do not have any emergency supplies stored up at all.
#30 53 percent of all Americans do not even have a 3 day supply of nonperishable food and water in their homes. What will they do when a major crisis or emergency strikes? Do they actually believe that the government will swoop in to save them if something happens?
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Let's do some calculus:
Fine. Calculate the integral of DEFAULTs since 1913. Calculate the integral of INTEREST collections since 1913. Subtract INTEREST for DEFAULTs yielding INFLATION. Differentiate INFLATION to deliver the "true" INFLATION rate over time. How does it compare to "reported" INFLATION?
Come on...I answered your question above.
Tell me what a logarithim is.
Then compute dP/dt.
If you cannot it is okay. At least you solved my initial question. Most here could not even do that.
But just tell me that you do not know. It is okay not to know.
The entire subthread was created as a response to someone, Inbetweenispain, who ridiculed the existence of God without knowing Mathematics. That initial poster did not even have the balls to respond.
Oh...And FUCK THE FED. I am all too aware of the Unrepayable Exponentially Growing Debt which will bring about the collapse of Western Civilization.
And I cannot deny the Mathematics...as the innumerate can, and do, when it concerns the Economy, or, the existence of the Creator.
I told you what a logarithm was. How that relates to god is beyond me. And exponentially growing debt (i.e. trading promises in progress) is no problem if you have an exponentially growing number of traders, or an exponentially growing amount of energy put into making and delivering on trading promises. Debt is just another word for "undelivered trading promise ... or trading promise in progress". People are being confused by Ellen Brown's "Web of Debt" where she ignores DEFAULTs and says INTEREST makes it impossible to pay off debt. Ridiculous! Governments are continuous DEFAULTers leaving more than enough money for traders to pay their INTEREST (more exactly by the amount of INFLATION we experience). Where you have a problem is with a mismanaged medium of exchange resulting in inflation which causes a distorted view of trading promises.
No. You did not tell me what a logarithm is.
What is a logarithm?
In your solution, t = log P/log(1 + r), which is correct, why is t expressed as a logarithmic function? (Hint: It is the same answer.)
And I disagree that you can have Growth in Debt in all cases as there is a Boundary condition.
If the differential of Growth in Debt (a differential with respect to time) to the Growth of Revenue (as a result of population and productivity and also a differential with respect to time) is greater than one then it will follow that Growth in Debt is not sustainable and collapse will ensue.
One must look at the differential rates of growth. Furthermore since the Earth is an adiabat, a Closed System, then there is decay in available resources, a depletion of available resources to sustain productivity.
That is where the Calculus is required to understand the underlying factors.
Here's what I wrote earlier:
A logarithm is a domain change allowing you to do multiplication and division by addition and subtraction. Exponentiation is accomplished by multiplication in the logarithmic domain. Returning to original domain means exponentiation of the logarithmic base (usually 10 or e) by the result.
Was that not satisfactory?
Re. exponential growth of debt: Somehow I missed your qualification of "without a corresponding growth of revenue from population or productivity growth" (paraphrased). So, you have asserted the obvious. If you make trading promises you can't keep, you will default. I don't know about you, but I have never made a trading promise I couldn't (or didn't) deliver on.
And I gave you the calculus problem that needed to be solved (i.e. cumulative defaults less cumulative interest collections yields cumulative inflation, the derivitive with respect to time of which is the "true" rate of inflation ... calculated with no reference to prices whatever). The trouble is we don't know defaults ... and never have, thus proving the MOE has never been properly managed.
What we need is a PID control algorithm that takes DEFAULTs-INTEREST as an input and adjusts INTEREST collections such that this difference perpetually drives to zero ... guaranteeing zero INFLATION.
That was really a poor obfuscatory complex definition which serves to confuse and not bring any light.
A logarithm is an EXPONENT. That is all that it is.
In the equation P = (1 + r)t notice that t is the EXPONENT. That is the reason that the solution is a Logarithmic function.
Because t is a logarithm.
log 10 = 1
log 100 = 2
log 1000 = 3
log 10,000 = 4
Likewise 101 = 10
102 = 100
103 = 1000
104 = 10,000
Notice that the exponents are equal to the logs.
Some people will take the most simple concept, the most elegant concept, and make it into a bunch of meaningless gobbledy gook because they have not the clue of the genius of simplicity.
Oh everything written was true. But it failed to reduce it to its most basic and elegant definition.
I hope that you read this as the discussion is now buried.
As to your last paragraph that is how ideal Keynesianism was designed. But the neo-Keynesians have not the discipline to make that a reality.
Even John Maynard Keynes is rolling in his grave as his "Theory" (actually his plan as Theories describe observed and verifiable phenomena) has been perverted and politicized.
But concerning Economics I am more interested in how it actually works than that of implementing plans.
As to your last paragraph that is how ideal Keynesianism was designed. But the neo-Keynesians have not the discipline to make that a reality.
Even John Maynard Keynes is rolling in his grave as his "Theory" (actually his plan as Theories describe observed and verifiable phenomena) has been perverted and politicized.
But concerning Economics I am more interested in how it actually works than that of implementing plans.
It's been a long time since I completely dissected and annotated JMKs "General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" (if you're interested I'll send you a chunk of the work) but I defy you to show anywhere in there that he makes the obvious connection between "money" and "a promise to complete a trade". I defy you to show anywhere in there that he relates INTEREST collections to DEFAULTs or discuses the obvious expression INFLATION = DEFAULTs - INTEREST. After dissecting his book I've refused to read another thing he has written. And it's obvious from the title that he fails to see that employment has nothing to do with management of a Medium of Exchange (MOE) ... i.e. money and interest and defaults.
Re. your explanation of logarithms: I'm surprised you didn't go into a derivation of "e" and get your rocks off on that too. There we no flaws in any of my replies to your comments and tests. You sound like an academic. Glad I didn't have you for an instructor.
And what is it about the "works" of Economics you refer to? I've said nothing about plans. I just described the obvious princples of proper management of any MOE. Call it economics ... call it addition and subtraction ... call it a plan. Who cares. It's a trivial exercise that is not the least bit difficult to understand ... unless you are laying out subterfuge. Once you know how simple it is, the amount of smoke you see people blowing is absolutely stunning. Get INFLATION of the MOE to zero and keep it there and all that other nonsense goes away. Don't do that and you can't predict or control anything.
Your question is fallacious by being so one dimensional. Having multiple media of exchange solves the problem for you with no central controllers to fail to use enough measurement to get inflation right or worse, have incentive in lying. Any management of the medium of exchange or a central interest rate would by default be centralized. Let there be no stated, declared MoE nor a method to manage it. Let people use their own best choices and whatever's a bad choice will just stop being used pretty quickly.
It's that simple. Given the very different physical properties of what's been used, and used a long time as medium of exchange I'd say you can't just decide to manage 'the' MoE by deciding you know precisely which medium it should (or shouldn't) be in advance as this changes the dynamic of how useful it is & where, not just non-monetary goods or services that are paid for using MoE units.
If you want a stable MoE let goods me those media of exchange. Any combination. Time will progress to what's easiest given a long-term history of problems trying something else, maybe empty promises (bonds) go bust, maybe something in frequent need & easy to procure (say, bricks) are poor for other reasons (pockets+bricks=fail).
What kind of MoE could you possibly imagine that won't step over every person's toes if managed by someone else as the very means that currency can exist much less how it's being used 'on' everyone?
First bold statement, literally & figuratively: logarithms are EXPONENTS. WTF? That's like saying multiplications are divisions. They are inverse operations. Are you losing track of your own train of thought, how do you think this actually looks later?
Listing off examples with powers of 10 didn't in any way improve on the definition you're arguing with. The point was made clearly the first time.
And your assumption is busted, down to the level of "is it, is it really?"
"One must look at the differential rates of growth. Furthermore since the Earth is an adiabat, a Closed System"
Funny, last time I checked everything in this 'closed' system is under the influence of things beyond the gereral boundary of Earth, like, gravity from the moon, photons & sometimes plenty more from this sun, our heavy elements were clearly made in fusion events of other stars...
it seems to me that's a funny definition of 'closed' or maybe just a very bad assumption that when broken, breaks your entire concept in half.
Ozero times any numeral is still zero.
For the age of the universe in dog years multiply 5000 by 7. In religious years multiply it by 3 million or so. In stupid years pick your own multiplier.
The Universe is actually 25 Billion to 40 Billion Years. That age is not measured by what is images of light but but that which is dark.
Cosmologists are prone to confuse images with objects. The Universe is also holographic. Ones whom are incapable of understanding the Mathematics are incapable of understanding the Universe. From the Quantum Level to the Macro Universe the story of the Singularity is contained within because of the holographic nature.
And I write to people whom cannot understand basic, fucking Algebra?
Oh what BLIND FAITH that you have in your denial of Creation and the Creator which only smacks of the same Religion which you despise, thou hypocrite.
Thank you Zen master...
\facepalm...
I must have missed those papers you wrote about how the recent Planck results were wrong...
Would you like to show your calculation of the multipole moments for the CMBR?
And how they compare with observation?
Flakmeister...They are using a flawed model. The Hubble Model is flawed. The Planck Constant is not incorrect. But the confusion arises as they are using the Visible Galaxies and the Doppler Shift to measure the age. The problems which we face is that there is a confusion between objects and images.
Doppler Shifting can be caused by reflection. The Echo is an example of that in sound. The images of the Galaxies are reflected upon the fabric of Space Time. They are IMAGES which can be actual Objects expanding away from us. Or, conversely, through the Gravitational Lens Affect, they can be reflections upon reflections upon the fabric of Space Time...echoes of the past.
My model considers the visible Universe is much like peering into a child's kalideoscope.
So what I have done is to consider that the Black Body Radiation curve is the holographic signature of the Singularity contained in all Energy. Since most matter is dark I have used that equation, with the Wavelength Axis denoted as a Time Axis. I have done an Exponential regression to obtain my results.
My model solves the problem of the "unexplained acceleration" as what they are viewing is an Exponential Extinction.
I have not published it. I may never do it.
People as yourself, Flak, are the reason. You deserve to walk around without knowledge.
You cannot think outside of the box. Where is the creativity in that?
You just sealed the deal...
You are now officially a member of Zero Hedge Science Whackadoo Club...
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Just for shits and giggles...
So what value should the Planck Constant be?
If you use your "correct" value what are the predicted wavelengths for atomic Hydrogen Balmer Series sprectral lines? How do they compare with the measured value?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmer_series
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BTW, this is the Planck I was referring to:
http://planck.caltech.edu/publications2013Results.html
and in particular
http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.5076
Nice strawman argument.
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE PLANCK CONSTANT. I wrote that in my first response. I will repeat it.
THE HUBBLE MODEL IS FLAWED. We have known that for quite some time. First...When the Universe began its initial Inflation it was ACCELERATING. What force acted upon the Universe to stop the acceleration????
The Hubble Constant is a constant slope of a Distance- Time plot. It is a VELOCITY.
What force acted upon the Universe to bring it into constant velocity? (...that is a Nobel Prize if you can answer it. Of course there IS NO ANSWER.)
The MODEL IS FLAWED. So since the Model is flawed a competent scientist either modifies the model or abandons the Model.
I have chosen to abandon it altogether because of that problem amongst others.
My model solves those problems but at the cost of the current accepted age. It is very elegant.
Do not worry. I will never publish it because of dishonest people as yourself. (Your use of the Strawman demonstrates your duplicity.) I will take it to the grave and allow you to walk in a Land of Confusion.
I misread your line about the Planck constant, mea culpa...
Doesn't change anything, you are a classic example of Dunning-Kruger fueled buffoon...
Psst... Ho is merely the current value and it is not a constant through the history of the Universe...
BTW, how do you know it was accelerating? What experimental evidence do you have?
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Classic whackadoo behaviour on your part: "I won't publish because people are dishonest"...
You couldn't get your shit published if your life depended on it....
It is considered accelerating as the Doppler Shifts of the Balmer Lines are not uniform at the most distant images.
You know...Delta Lambda/Lambda = v/c
We plot that onto the Chart and we can see an observed change in slope which means an acceleration.
Furthermore I do not believe that Planck's Constant was due to any change.
You are mistaken about my inability to submit papers to Journals for Peer Review. So you can attempt to politicize this. I do not put that past you or your ilk.
But I will not publish because of people like you. I will not invest into America because of people like you.
Yawn, all I see is a continuous torrent of pseudo-scientific word salad and jibberish...
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Psst, you better get cracking on that model of yours...
Between SNAP, WMAP, PLANCK and just this past week BICEP2 you got a shitload of data to test your very own private little Cosmology against...
One third of Americans obviously do not understand the term "Body Cavity Search".
If the TSA were to attempt to do that to a preteen or teenage girl then I would have no options but to wage war. And I am anti war.
Sometimes I think that this type of story is posted to get people extremely angry. (It worked.)
We are in a World of Hurt.
Study to become painkiller, for a time not so far away.........
i think a body cavity search is a cry for human touch....of any kind, in this no need for people tech world.
Close to one-third of all Americans would be willing to submit to a "TSA body cavity search" in order to fly.
New fetish for the sexually frustrated?
Common Sense is Not Common...
Repubs want to regulate what goes on in the bedroom and Dems want to regulate what people eat. If I have sex in my kitchen and eat unhealthy food in my bedroom will both parties leave me alone?
Liberiterians let you Eat or be eaten in your bedroom?
One of the best lies EVER.. Republicans don't care what you fuck if its over age and can agree fuck it, Of course I am not Republican but i used to be and did not give a shit at that point either ignoramus..
Never heard any Republican saying they want to regulate what goes on in your bedroom. Unless of course you are making a phone call and then both parties want to know what you're saying, and the IRS will investigate you if you say 'Tea Party'.
Nonetheless, given your description of your preferences, I will decline the invitation to dinner at your house.
Ask the Cooch about Virginia sodomy laws....
I don't find a problem with girls who want to be a teenage mother, as long as the plan is to have a father around and start building a family early in life. If the plan is to leverage the kid for welfare benefits, however, she deserves a bullet to the head.
Minors can get an abortion without their parents' consent because they have a right to choose. Yet go into most high schools in the US and you will find bottled water and healthy snacks as the only options in vending machines because the school board will tell you that teenages can't be allowed to choose between soda and water and candy and granola bars because they make bad choices.
And my favorite. The school health people don't have to disclose to the parents that a teen is pregnant but they send home "fat" notices. But what if your child is fat because they're pregnant?
"The penis is evil!"
Zardoz, circa 1974: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zardoz
Actually she just deserves to not get welfare. If there was no government welfare system then there wouldn't be an issue in the first place.
That hardly seems fair. You make it sound like she should be punished for not being responsible.......
strange days..
29% of americans under the age of 35 are living with their parents? That's it? we are kicking ass. We still have about another 20% to go before we are close to reverting to the mean, which europe represents.
The NSA can look at anything they want because citizens shouldn't worry if they have nothing to hide. Cops in Arizona can't ask suspicious people what their immigration status is because that violates their rights (but shouldn't they not worry if they have nothing to hide?).
Time to leave! CYA!
In my mind, I'm long gone.
Very first one is bullshit. This economy being FAIR?!? WTF?? Try again Snyder.
Better yet, don't try again Snyder. Ever.
YOU WON'T BELIEVE THE 39 REASONS SNYDER SHOULD NEVER, EVER, TRY AGAIN!!
They don't need supplies if they have good weapons.
America just doesn't collectively value intelligence. But in a society that isn't a meritocracy it actually doesn't have value.
WHADDYA KNOW ITS MICHAEL FUCKING SNYDER AND ANOTHER FUCKING LIST.
Whaddya know it's another guy who can't locate the CAPS key to turn it off.
#33
How the RNC kicked the grassroots Pauls to the curb and will do so again
http://usnvrepcan.blogspot.com/2014/03/how-paul-family-were-shut-down-by...
I read that some of the people that watched the Superman movie 'man of steel' thought his plot character was based on a character in the bible. These surveys, survey odd people.
"...more than third of the population is officially obese." ... "...nearly a third of us would be willing to submit to a "TSA body cavity search" in order to get on an airplane."
Same third? Hoping, maybe, that the TSA might find a misplaced mars bar or hot pocket into the bargain. Would they be willing to submit to a T&A body cavity search even if they weren't getting on an airplane?
What we already knew long before Ed Snowden and his paypal mentors came along on how to "boil the frog"!...
#11 with at least 56% of this Country finding it to be just swell means the conditioning seems to be working out quite well... Why all the fuss about punishing Ed when we knew all along the American people would come around to agreeing with their overlords sooner or later?
Maybe the largest amount of praise should go to Big Pharma... I think the meds help make everything better!
#17 Only 8 percent of Americans believe that congress is doing a "good" or "excellent" job.
So then why the hell do they keep electing them?? Wake up people, its not just a blue and red world!
Correct! It is red, WHITE and blue.
"So then why the hell do they keep electing them??"
*Puts on sheeple hat*
Well, it's all those congress critters from other states. MY critter is good!
Gerrymandering makes it damn well near impossible to flip seats and the primary system is flawed...
The elections are rigged and have been for quite some time. Your vote DOESN"T count.
Ask yourself and research , who tallies the electronic votes? Wake up sheeple.
Your vote counts, it just doesn't matter when gerrymandering results in a foregone conclusion...
A scary percentage of Americans also believe that mermaids are real. They found the mermaids in the ocean near Greenland.
It was on Aninal Planet so it must be true.
#29 and #30 should take care of most of the odd outliers in the population.
It will be much easier for me to find a job when there is 51% less competition.
#4 20 percent of all government workers and 26 percent of all Obama supporters consider the Tea Party to be "the biggest terror threat" that America is facing.
and 100% of tea baggers feel the same about the workers and supporters.
What a fucking joke.
News Flash: The Tea Party are Republicans. That's it. Nothing to see there..
Another ignorant fucking leftist with no idea who pays the bills. One day that will become crystal clear dumbass..
#3 According to another recent Rasmussen Reports survey, 59 percent of Americans believe that "less government involvement in the economy" would help reduce the size of the income gap in this country. (And those 59 percent are actually correct.)
The government is suppressing the economy.
In some ways, the government is doing just that: a) excessive regulation, b) propping up private industries that can't make it on their own, c) not enforcing anti-trust legislation, d) supporting the interests of multinational corporations over domestic corporations, e) allowing one-sided enormous trade deficits to continue... and on and on.
God, what a depressing post.
Be of good cheer my friend, there's always........nope that's gone too. Never mind........
#16 65 percent of Americans are dissatisfied "with the U.S. system of government and its effectiveness". That is the highest level of dissatisfaction that Gallup has ever recorded.
Obama is fundamentally changing the system, to its detriment.
The scary part of that statistic is that 35% must be satisfied. Does that match the statistic for illiteracy?
Even the smart guys are pretty dumb.
Most americans and US geologists think oil comes from dead dinosaurs and dead plants.
Most US physicists refuse to admit the plain and easily repeatedly experiments of Quantum Mechanics which show that neither space nor time exist.
Most americans and US doctors think HIV causes AIDS.
Most americans, the US government, and US doctors think a high carb diet is good for you. These same people think fat is bad for you.
I could go on, but what is the point?
The end is not coming soon, it will be a long slow decline.
Keep thinking outside the Grassmannian.
Could you explain that Quantum Mechanical thingie for us? We are all ears...
Between that and your abiotic oil plug, I think we can safely place you in the wingnut category...
I'm surprised how many people know where Iraq is. I really don't give a fuck where it is. I think it's next to Iran and Kuwait, but nobody cares about those countries either.
If true, the survey results regarding giving up freedoms and liberty for 'safety' means that we are fucked beyond even what I imagined. 60 years of destroying the educational system is paying off big time for TPTB now.
You hit the nail squarely. When I read those items that relate to a lack of understanding of the Constitution, then everything else makes perfect sense. Without the Constitution (we really have two now - the original, and the fiat one that changes daily), we are heading to a balkanized, chaotic squabble of competing entitlement interests that will rip us apart. We are halfway there, I think.
98% of those 36 % admit that it was because the rep was a Pakistani with a fake Texas or Southern accent pretending to be an American.
if 5 years of the 1D10T wimp in the WH didn't wake people up.... nothing ever will.....
51% of amerikans think wearing a condom gives you safe sex. it doesn't. my friend was shot and killed by the woman's husband while searing one.
OK, that was funny.
Searing ... does that hurt?
you will be shocked by what michael snyder believes:
but that's ok...maybe he's just pandering to his target audience.
So, we are to discount the article because of the man's religious views? So someone who is religious cannot have valid economic opinions, or adequately aggregate poll results from reputable sources, as he has done here? (I checked a few, not all, but they look legitimate.)
Your ad hominem attacks say more about you than the author. Burr up your butt?
Nope, tabulating people views which are derived from the Bible is fair game...
It gives you an estimate of their intellectual honesty....
Of course. Because if you ever need absolute honesty and the unadulterated truth, you should ask any athiest.
atheists are normally known for critical thinking and asking questions, which is a good thing.
however, they still miss the big picture.
no ad hominem here.
what people say/write/do should be understood in context with their worldview.
what's unclear is if snyder is just playing a mask to make money off his customer base or if he's really serious about a rapture and the second coming.
it could even be both!
Yet you can prove that the BLS is full of shit and mainstream media in the US ignores some topics outright and leave out pertinent facts that would change the narritive. You want the real answer? Go to the primary source, and hope somebody isn't lying to you. Return to the basics. Who where, what, how and why, and if you can, verify that shit. While I will not simply believe a conspiracy theory because it is contrary to the mainstream views, I will acknowledge that more and more conspiracy theories are becoming conspiracy facts. You should ask yourself, who decides what is a false claim and what is a true claim.
a) and c) are partly contradictory - the MSM is either reliable or not; cannot be both.
a) and c) are categorizations for information source type.
the study has nothing to do with (dis)affirming reliability of MSM.
the study's main conclusion is that that an information source is a determinant factor in shaping people's views. kind of obvious if you just think about it.
lesson: be aware and don't restrict yourself to one information source type. consider the possibilities, then synthesize the various views into a whole.
To all Americans.
Beans, bullets & balls, bitchez!
30 reasons not to read anything where the title starts with a number.
ethnic composition of American society is dragging it to the very bottom
ethnic composition is irrelevant. History shows that spiritual composition is most important. How spiritual is America today? Before you answer, attend some local churches and observe what is going on. At my church, there are young people being taught to control their appetites and reverence God's authority. There is hope for this world.
#2 explains #1
#24 I don't see the problem here.
I suspect that most of these wouldn't be nearly as surprising if you looked at the actual questions and the audience.
Another question:
Do you believe the MSM reports all the news, and without bias?
Is a Bear Catholic? Does the Pope shit in the woods?
A better question would be "Do you believe there is such a thing as objective news?"
The Who, What, Where is easy.
The rub is in the How and Why. A matter of subjective evaluation is required to complete the story.
This is the reason history is a fascinating subject because the latter two points can be endlessly examined and debated while the former three can be generally agreed upon.
according to the survey we're better off than I thought ----not bad for a Tue.
Only stupid people are shocked by how ignorant the average American is.
50 years of Socialist Democrat control of our educational systems have their consequences........
Two things to keep in mind:
1) Polls are a measure of the effectiveness of the propaganda.
2) 94.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
I used not to quite believe these sorts of surveys, but then I saw this recently; it's a joke petition about adding more fluoride to water, and the guy signing the petition when asked if he supports this answers "No", while signing a petition that clearly states that it's in favour of adding more fluoride to the water. If there's any consolation it's that he says "he wants to do good", it's just the unthinking stupidity that is so remarkable.
Every one of us cunts is represented in these polls.
Regards.
Looking at these polling results should tell you one thing...
...that polls acnnot be trusted to tell you anything - except what the pollster wants you to hear.
Many of the questions/results are in direct contradiction, and were they to be asked to the SAME individuals/group of individuals, the outcome would necessarily be much different.
Clearly, pollsters 'play' to an audience, and the idea of 'random cross section' is a lie. Polling 'results' is a mind manipulating tool of propaganda, and when someone whips out a poll result as basis for an argument, you should punch them in the mouth for trying to mind-fuck you.
I think it's safe to say that a natural curiosity about power, it's structures and mechanisms is not a universal trait imbued in humans.
Far more than not would consider staying fed and relatively comfortable of more importance to their well being.
All you whiners about the 'stoopid people' are like a plumber who can't understand how everyone else can't fix a toilet.
Even the whiners who can't fix a toilet themselves.
#9 29 percent of Americans believe that "cloud computing" involves an actual cloud.
Could it be that 29% of Americans are sarcastic.
#24 The percentage of Americans that "believe there are signs that aliens have visited Earth" is actually higher than the percentage of Americans that believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
Sounds reasonable to me.
Either these compiled surveys are nothing but a joke or we in this country are f_cked.
#15 Close to one-third of all Americans would be willing to submit to a "TSA body cavity search" in order to fly.
...those sick preverted fucks.
Don't join the revolution for them. Join it for yourself.