Author Topic: Pollsters Made Up a Conspiracy Theory, and Then 32.5% of the People They Questioned Endorsed It  (Read 546 times)

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Offline ABX

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I bet if they let it run its course and get spread on facebook and other social media, it will go from belief to 'common knowledge'.

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In Chapman University's latest Survey on American Fears, pollsters asked about 10 alleged cover-ups. In the most striking result, 25 percent of the respondents agreed—and another 7.5 percent strongly agreed—that the "government is concealing what they [sic] know about the North Dakota Crash."

What's striking about that? Just that the pollsters had never actually heard any conspiracy theories about a "North Dakota Crash"; they threw that in to see how people would respond to a vaguely ominous-sounding episode that they invented......

http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/25/pollsters-made-up-a-conspiracy-theory-an