One Fifth Of Britons Think Lightsabers Are Real

[[Fallacy]]

If you asked myself or at least 2/3 of the people I'm with on a regular business they'd probably say the same thing too for the sake of taking the piss.

They see me trollin'..

 

[WolfLordAndy]

No excuse for the lightsaber question, but from the sample questions they give, they're very ambiguous. They need to be much more accurate and precise questions if they're checking scientific knowledge...

Stars Singing for example... I'm aware they give of radio frequencies that we read with radio telescopes... but I would not have considered this singing, so I apparnently got that question wrong :/

 

[SketchyFK]

It's a completely open survey...

I don't think we need Sherlock Holmes to realise this is a number of people playing a joke.

I once answered an entire survey about Christmas while very drunk because I wanted the free Christmas hat they were offering to participants.

In fact I'm going to join them!

'Can stars sing?' *Yes*

EDIT: I am from Birmingham ¬.¬ It's a rather habitable place I think you'll find.

I'm from Scotland, its also rather habitable although some of the population i fear may have mutated...

ANYWAY, stories like this don't surprise me, I remember when we visited York and were given a tour around York Cathedral (badly spelt =S) and they said that The Sun (our newspaper) had reported that the USS Enterprise NCC 1701 (Kirks one) had attacked the cathedral during the night and that IT had set it on fire, NOT the lightening that occured the night before.

The problem is that London has more people living in it than the ENTIRE OF SCOTLAND so it is really difficult to see how it is 1/5th of the British population. Thats like asking 48 English, 2 Scottish and calling the results "from the British public".

I don't have anything against the English, I just think that if they asked more Scottish people the "fifth" might be higher, depending on how drunk they were.

I remember reading a review saying that something silly like a sixth of the American people believe they've been aducted by aliens.

Fun times.

 

[The Random One]

Well, now at least Americans have some way to reply when someone says half of them can't find their own country in a map.

Although memory-erasing technologies do exist, to an extent. Just ask Elizabeth Hoftus [http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/02/implanting-false-memories-lost-in-mall.php]. And you can see gravity, in the way that when it's strong enough it beds light around it. But it can only really observed on the edges of a black hole, so there.

 

[WorldCritic]

The stupidity of humans, it never ceases to amaze me.

Yes, actually believing that one fifth of people think lightsabers are real. The stupidity of it.

Not what I meant, but I'm not in the mood to argue.

 

[InnerRebellion]

I think this may have to do with those fellows with a good sense of humour who claim their religion is Jedi.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Only a fifth?

Hell's teeth, I'd be surprised if half the people near me didn't think they were real.

 

[FungiGamer]

In terns of gravity I think it really depends on how specific you are. Can you see gravity in work? Yes, just hold an object and let go of it. Can you physically SEE gravity? No.

 

[DaJoW]

Strange results on a survey open to the Internet? Shocking!

 

[Gitty101]

Really!? I mean, REALLY!? If most of these survey answers were genuine...

I'm hoping they were just trolling for the lulz ^^

 

[Byere]

This worries me though, although I have to wonder if the surveyers chose a specific sort of person.

I'd assume they probably picked participants who were aged between 13 and 25... Which might explain the idiocy and/or trolling...

And yes, I reside in that age range. I'm not just picking on youngsters

 

[Beeple]

Nuh uh! When you drop an apple it falls to the ground. You see it fall to the ground. Gravity makes it fall to the ground therefore you have seen gravity acting on the object.

That is what seeing gravity means, and that is proof that that small 18% of British people have a significantly higher intellect than the remaining 82% in the survey.

Since we are gonna start splitting hairs, gravity is an invisible force. You cant see gravity, only how it affects its surrounding enviroment.

Heh, see all previous posts stating "Brits don't take these things seriously" we really don't.

 

[lacktheknack]

It's a completely open survey...

I don't think we need Sherlock Holmes to realise this is a number of people playing a joke.

In fact I'm going to join them!

'Can stars sing?' *Yes*

Actually they can...

 

[Lullabye]

The sad thing is, when i saw this i thought'1/5 of brits are trolling'. Then I realized if this survey had been taken in the states with the same result, i would have been surprised it was only one fifth.....

 

[emeraldrafael]

Hunh... and brits like to criticize the American Education system.

*Saves this one away for later date*

 

[Naturality]

"Seven out of ten adults questioned thought it was impossible to move objects with their mind, yet researchers at Coventry University?s Serious Games Institute have collaborated with California-based company, NeuroSky, to develop a headset which can read analogue electrical brainwaves and turn them into digital signals."

What? That's not the same as moving objects with the mind.


For a study on scientific knowledge, this seems to be worryingly lacking in scientific rigour.

 

[zehydra]

That's because of the large jedi population.

 

[redisforever]

Does that mean lightsabers aren't real?! NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WAS LIED TO!