75% of Americans believe everything they read
TomS
they read:
<http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/022>
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Rick Brandt
news:150275565.000...@drn.newsguy.com...
> Recent real facts prove that 75% of Americans believe everything
> they read:
>
> <http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/022>
I found about 25% of that article hard to believe.
Robert J. Kolker
The average american reads less than one book (no periodic publication)
a year. Seventy five percent of a little is a little.
Bob Kolker
>
VoiceOfReason
TomS wrote:
> Recent real facts prove that 75% of Americans believe everything
> they read:
I don't believe it.
But I did get a kick out of this from the article:
""Always double check your facts - just because you have seen a
fact printed in one place does not make it a fact. It could be a hoax
website - or even a piece of news satire." ... "
"An even more shocking example was when the CIA inadvertently mistook a
news report on a small online satire magazine run by two students that
a small village in Canada was a training camp for Al-Qaeda operatives
and levelled it with an air strike killing 130 innocent people."
Too funny!
Desertphile
> Recent real facts prove that 75% of Americans believe everything
> they read:
> <http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/022>
The article is obviously meant to be ironically funny (i.e., a prank).
neverbetter
TomS wrote:
> Recent real facts prove that 75% of Americans believe everything
> they read:
The solution: You can't be duped if you never read anything.
CreateThis
The last two US Presidential elections disproved that notion.
CT
Richard Clayton
Cite? If true, that is the most depressing thing I've heard in some time.
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theSalamander
the spot"?
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VoiceOfReason
You are SO right. This site is a scream! Here are a few other
articles:
- Quail Grateful to Harry Whittington for Taking Dick Cheney's Shot
- Government Authorizes Forming of No-Smoking Death Squads After Voting
for Smoking Ban
- Holland Officially More Gullible Than USA
- Business Booming for Danish Flag Maker
- Saddam Hussein to Hire Michael Jackson's Lawyer
- United Nations to Outlaw Vegetarianism in New Environmental
Guidelines
- Bush Cancels Invasion of Canada
[A good thing too, since last time we tried they kicked our butts.]
- Ban on Hunting With Dogs Sees Huge Increase in Hunting With Cats
- USA Recaptured by British Whilst Americans Busy With 4th of July
Celebrations
- Michael Jackson Gives His DNA to Authorities; Now Officially Classed
as a Mannequin
- Mankind to Exhaust Creative Thinking by 2005
And of course:
- How to Avoid Being Fooled by a News Satire Story
Josh M.
"Richard Clayton" <rZIGecl...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Robert J. Kolker wrote:
>> Rick Brandt wrote:
>>
>>> "TomS" <TomS_...@newsguy.com> wrote in message
>>> news:150275565.000...@drn.newsguy.com...
>>>
>>>> Recent real facts prove that 75% of Americans believe everything
>>>> they read:
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/022>
>>>
>>> I found about 25% of that article hard to believe.
>>
>> The average american reads less than one book (no periodic publication)
>> a year. Seventy five percent of a little is a little.
>
> Cite? If true, that is the most depressing thing I've heard in some time.
It's satire.
rja.ca...@excite.com
Good to see a European University Professor getting the respect his
position deserves. Go, European University!
Ross Langerak
> they read:
>
> <http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/022>
82.6% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Pithecanthropus Erectus
Good to see that there are sites that take over where satirewire left off.
raven1
> Recent real facts prove that 75% of Americans believe everything
>they read:
I don't believe that!
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Dave
> Recent real facts prove that 75% of Americans believe everything
> they read:
>
> <http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/022>
Thurisaz the Einherjer
> Recent real facts prove that 75% of Americans believe everything
> they read:
For obvious reasons I don't have much opportunity to confirm that, but it
certainly fits the observations I can make. And very well so.
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guscubed
TomS wrote:
> Recent real facts prove that 75% of Americans believe everything
> they read:
>
> <http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/022>
>
I resemble that slur on my character!
Frank J
TomS wrote:
> Recent real facts prove that 75% of Americans believe everything
> they read:
>
> <http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/022>
>
The problem is that people, Americans or otherwise, believe what they
want to believe, even if it contradicts something else that they
believe. Selective incredulity is ingrained in our culture, so people
of all political and religious persuasions are inclined to disbelieve
anything that either destroys comfortable myths or takes too much
effort to understand. And science loses out on both counts.
Given that the media is sales-driven, it can be expected to report
things that are believed more than not. And when the subject includes
science, the incentive to sensationalize and caricaturize it is usually
too great to pass up. Like I keep saying, the liberal media probably
does more to promote anti-evolution pseudoscience than all the
anti-evolution organizations combined. Without even trying.