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11% said yes or were unsure?! One in fucking ten people, in the most generous interpretation, did not know whether the government were secretly shape-shifting a
by freeone3000 1y ago
11% said yes or were unsure?! One in fucking ten people, in the most generous interpretation, did not know whether the government were secretly shape-shifting aliens. God, how did we get here.
- dash2 1y agoYeah, but some proportion of those were joking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischievous_responders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischievous_responders
- giardini 1y agoBelief in aliens is fairly benign. Consider that half the population have an IQ below 50.
- freeone3000 1y agoNoooo, that’s not true. Below 100, as it’s weighted for this to be true: half above half below. It could theoretically be possible for the half below to also be below 50, but this would require the other half to all be above 150, and both are absurd, because there are a whole horde of people of completely average intelligence. Checking IQ test results, we see they follow a Gaussian with a mean of 100 and a stddev of 15.
- giardini 1y agoWhoops!8-(( You are of course correct. Meant to say "Consider that half the population have an IQ below 100."