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The original source is over a hundred pages of polling data, so I won’t link to that. https://m.slashdot.org/story/381628 https://m.slashdot.org/story/381628

• exo-pla-net 6y ago
  They aren't scientists. And their conclusion is not just false; it's the opposite. If you have a college education, you're proportionally much more likely to have a "very unfavorable" view of QAnon. (26% with no college degrees, versus ~42% with college or higher). How did the journalists get it wrong? 1) They fixated on a poorly worded polling question: "How accurate or inaccurate are the claims made by QAnon?" (I myself believe that QAnon's claims are "somewhat accurate", in a similar way that I notice that broken clocks are correct twice per day.) 2) They failed to notice that non-college-educated people overwhelmingly account for people who are "unaware" of QAnon. It could be inferred that education correlates with worldly awareness, and hence the ability to have opinions on obscure topics. In conclusion, don't trust popular press. Journalists lack the analytical skill and incentives to accurately report on science, much less on raw data. https://xkcd.com/882/ https://xkcd.com/882/