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http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/022

The scary thing is, I can believe it! :D

Jack Bauer IS real! I saw him on TV!

http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/022

The scary thing is, I can believe it! :D

Cute.

If that statistic is true, every American pay attention to the following message.

You each owe me $50.

Jack Bauer IS real! I saw him on TV!

Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris.

Chunk Norris

http://chunknorris.ytmnd.com/

If that statistic is true, every American pay attention to the following message.

You each owe me $50.

*gives DCD $25*

I only believe half of what I read.

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.

When did we bomb canada? lol lets hope they put it in there so people would check up on them

If that statistic is true, every American pay attention to the following message.

You each owe me $50.

I know for a fact that every American owes me a quarter, a dime, a nickel and a penny.

When did we bomb canada? lol lets hope they put it in there so people would check up on them

yeah, because the next paragraph says you have to always check the facts.

Chunk Norris

http://chunknorris.ytmnd.com/
Blocked by school thingy. :(
*gives DCD $25*

I only believe half of what I read.
Send him a dollar!!!

;)

Send him a dollar!!!

;)

OMG! she totally freaked out and so after a few days I told her the truth and she doesn't believe me... she thinks I "work for them"

I feel so bad now :( :p

If that statistic is true, every American pay attention to the following message.

You each owe me $50.

I believe everything I read is a lie... so YOU owe ME $50. Plus $1,000,000.00 for emotional distress caused by lying to me. My lawyer will be contacting you.

If that statistic is true, every American pay attention to the following message.

You each owe me $50.

*looking about furtively* If Your Holiness bestowed forgiveness of sins on each giver, why, the possibilities are endless, and so would the cash be.

Ahem ...

I like the idea of a retractable dome on the Capitol!

Blocked by school thingy. :(

Send him a dollar!!!

;)

http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://chunknorris.ytmnd.com/

OMG! she totally freaked out and so after a few days I told her the truth and she doesn't believe me... she thinks I "work for them"

I feel so bad now :( :p

Ahaha!

That's what she gets for emailing you. :p

http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/022

The scary thing is, I can believe it! :D

But,... If I believe everything I read,

and then I read that I shouldn't believe everything I read,

then should I now NOT believe what I just READ,

saying to NOT believe everything I read,

leaving me not believing in NOT BELIEVING IN everything I read,

which leaves me believing everything I read, again..!!?




..is this where the pretty gyndroid twins burn out and smolder from the ears?

http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://chunknorris.ytmnd.com/

You are my god.

EDIT: ..wait.. is there sound?

*demands headphones*

If that statistic is true, every American pay attention to the following message.

You each owe me $50.



But then someone can respond with 'thats not true' and confuse the heck out of the readers leaving them despondent and anxious and will question their usual methods of believing everything they read.

You are my god.

EDIT: ..wait.. is there sound?

*demands headphones*

I can only do so much

BTW you can use that website to look up anything through most school filters ... (I could explain why if you wanted but ... be happy with the result)

If that statistic is true ~SNIP~

I would be very interested to know who made up the sample for that study, considering that everyone in America didn't participate, obviously.

I would also point out that this quote from the article: The results are shocking, proving beyond any doubt that 75% of Americans believe almost everything that they read is immediately suspect because you can't "prove beyond any doubt" anything using inferential statistics - it's based on probability theory and allows us to make probability statements about what the likely state of things are. Now, that said, I'm not necessarily disputing that 75% of whatever sample was used believed everything that they read. What I am saying is that it's a ridiculous leap to go from the data collected with a relatively small sample to a broad generalization about the entire country.

I would be very interested to know who made up the sample for that study, considering that everyone in America didn't participate, obviously.

... If I read the story right it was a university that did the study. If they are anything like our survey department here we do a randomized calling solution (we run double the sead through double psudo-random number generators on seperate hardware and software) and using the result to select a number from our list (nation wide usualy but that depends on the survey)

We usualy do a 2000 person sample in nationwide ... a bit bigger on the more loclal things)

Yeah, I gathered that it was research done by a university as well. Knowing that I would still have questions, though. Survey data like that can be done with 2000 people, like you said, but the question remains about what 2000 people were used. Or did they do something else on a smaller scale? External validity is always the big question. What time of day did they do the bulk of the calling, was it only people with listed phone numbers, people self-select in regards to participation so would these results generalize to the people who chose not to participate? Etc.

I'm normally a stickler for these things, but moreso right now because those numbers scare me :p

Yeah, I gathered that it was research done by a university as well. Knowing that I would still have questions, though. Survey data like that can be done with 2000 people, like you said, but the question remains about what 2000 people were used. Or did they do something else on a smaller scale? External validity is always the big question. What time of day did they do the bulk of the calling, was it only people with listed phone numbers, people self-select in regards to participation so would these results generalize to the people who chose not to participate? Etc.

I'm normally a stickler for these things, but moreso right now because those numbers scare me :p

I am too ... I have a degree in statistics

The article was satire.

The article was satire.

I believe you. ;)

Frankly, I'm getting sick of all these *fake* articles bashing american intelligence. I'm sure people from the UK would be outraged if I posted a fake article or thread about '80% of Britain is Mentally handicapped.' Even though we all know its false. So please, for the last damn time, stop bashing Americans for no reason except for spite. You really make asses of yourselves by doing so.

Frankly, I'm getting sick of all these *fake* articles bashing american intelligence. I'm sure people from the UK would be outraged if I posted a fake article or thread about '80% of Britain is Mentally handicapped.' Even though we all know its false. So please, for the last damn time, stop bashing Americans for no reason except for spite. You really make asses of yourselves by doing so.

Errr... you should, perhaps, ease up on the caffeine? While I am not a fan of the "Polish joke" or any other joke that targets a specific nationality or minority, I do GET that it is a joke. If you, yourself, have never told such a joke, nor understood that the joke must play to a stereotype to work, and also don't understand that just because something IS a stereotype, it is not a universal truth, then perhaps your ranting is somewhat justified.

Other than that, lighten up. It is SO much better to be able to laugh at ourselves than to make war over an imagined slight.

Frankly, I'm getting sick of all these *fake* articles bashing american intelligence. I'm sure people from the UK would be outraged if I posted a fake article or thread about '80% of Britain is Mentally handicapped.' Even though we all know its false. So please, for the last damn time, stop bashing Americans for no reason except for spite. You really make asses of yourselves by doing so.


Oh my. A little defensive, aren't we?

I am too ... I have a degree in statistics
From a quote over the statistics chapter in a very old math textbook of mine..

"There are three types of lies. Lies, damn lies and statistics"--Benjamin Disraeli.

If that statistic is true, every American pay attention to the following message.

You each owe me $50.

Hey, even if they just believe 75% of it, that's $37.50 for each one.

http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/022

The scary thing is, I can believe it! :D
No fucking wonder we have a Republican administration...

No fucking wonder we have a Republican administration...


you know what i love about irony... its so ironic.

No fucking wonder we have a Republican administration...

Not neccesarily. If that story is true, all the Democrats have to do is write their own propaganda and 75% of us will believe them too. :)

... If that story is true, all the Democrats have to do is write their own propaganda and 75% of us will believe them too. :)

again

irony

you know what i love about irony... its so ironic.

It makes me giggle, and in this case die a little on the inside.

It makes me giggle, and in this case die a little on the inside.

I agree. The article makes me giggle, some of the responses to it are just sad.

i don't believe that. 76% would be more accurate.

“We have known for a long while that the average American is more stupid than the average European,” European University Professor Keith Wilson stated

*giggles*

Not neccesarily. If that story is true, all the Democrats have to do is write their own propaganda and 75% of us will believe them too. :)

AH, but that assumes that 75% of Republicans can read...







OK, OK... joke... don't kill me...

http://www.randomperspective.com/page.asp?1news/3/022

The scary thing is, I can believe it! :D

I can't believe it! :p

I am too ... I have a degree in statistics

He's a witch!

And what do we do with witches?

Clever.

Quote:
Originally Posted by UpwardThrust
I am too ... I have a degree in statistics

He's a witch!

And what do we do with witches?

See if they FLOAT..?



..he did turn me into a newt, ya' know..!

Lets just hope that that 75% are largely concentrated in the 'voters' too apathetic to make it to the ballot.

Just imagine what sort of leader could be elected if the majority of voters were total suckers believeing everything they read!

You could even end up with a religious fundamentalist prepared lie to Americans to convince them to let him go kill tens if not hundreds of thousands of people.