The predictions of the American People

[15357]

are insane.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...POLL?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Among other predictions for the U.S. in 2007:



25 percent anticipate the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Fewer than half the public think it likely the U.S. will go to war with Iran or North Korea. Should it come down to that, 40 percent think the battle will be with Iran while 26 percent said North Korea.

Aw, darn.

Seventy percent of people in the U.S. predict a major natural disaster in the country and an equal percentage expects worsening global warming. Also, 29 percent think it likely that the U.S. will withdraw its troops from Iraq.

So much optimism, huh?

 

[Remus]

So much optimism, huh?

Breaking News!!! The world is turning emo!!!

 

[Solaris]

25 percent anticipate the second coming of Jesus Christ.

That scares me.

 

[repiV]

Fortunately most of those 25% are concentrated in particular regions of the country.
I think the world (and the current United States) would be a much better place if the country had remained split after the civil war.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

Breaking News!!! The world is turning emo!!!

More Breaking News! The world is full of ****ing morons!

But you knew that. We all knew that. *eyes everyone*

 

[DeusExMachina]

Fortunately most of those 25% are concentrated in particular regions of the country.
I think the world (and the current United States) would be a much better place if the country had remained split after the civil war.

If only. But, then we'd have to worry about slavery in the south, which likely would've been stopped by now, but still.

Alas, 25% seems about right seeing as how the US has about 80% or so a Christian majority. At least it isn't 50%.

 

[15357]

Fortunately most of those 25% are concentrated in particular regions of the country.
I think the world (and the current United States) would be a much better place if the country had remained split after the civil war.

But the US wouldn't be a superpower...... Which would mean that the EVIL USSR EMPIRE WOULD RULE THE EARTH!

 

[repiV]

But the US wouldn't be a superpower...... Which would mean that the EVIL USSR EMPIRE WOULD RULE THE EARTH!

I think it would. Many small European countries were superpowers in the first half of the 20th century. Britain was more powerful than the United States at the turn of the century - it might still be so, if not for the world wars.

 

[topsquid]

But the US wouldn't be a superpower...... Which would mean that the EVIL USSR EMPIRE WOULD RULE THE EARTH!

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but...

The Chinese are gonna eat us all!:sniper:

 

[Moto]

These statistics can never be accurate. Nobody asked me these questions, and I'm sure many Americans can say the same. Not everyone took the poll or even knew about it. Plus, since this is the internet, people from all over the world can take the poll as well. Human minds are not like a coin toss. You can't predict the behavior or thoughts of 300 million people from a poll of a few thousand people dumb enough to visit anything having to do with AOL. It is stupid to see these and actually think that 25% of Americans think Jesus is coming back in 2007.

I'm sick of all these dumb polls that depict the American people as a bunch of scared, stupid people.

 

[Acepilotf14]

100% Expect to eat on January 1st.

 

[15357]

These statistics can never be accurate. Nobody asked me these questions, and I'm sure many Americans can say the same. Not everyone took the poll or even knew about it. Plus, since this is the internet, people from all over the world can take the poll as well. Human minds are not like a coin toss. You can't predict the behavior or thoughts of 300 million people from a poll of a few thousand people dumb enough to visit anything having to do with AOL. It is stupid to see these and actually think that 25% of Americans think Jesus is coming back in 2007.

I'm sick of all these dumb polls that depict the American people as a bunch of scared, stupid people.

The telephone poll of 1,000 adults was conducted Dec. 12-14 by Ipsos, an international polling firm. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

It is the Associated Press....

 

[Moto]

It is the Associated Press....

Yes... and they poll these 1,000 people from AOL and refer to the resulting data as if it reflects the opinions of the ~ 300,000,000 citizens of America. There is the problem. I can't do a science experiment on 2 ducks and say that all ducks must therefore look or behave the same. It's stupid.

YOU need to understand this when you say "The predictions of the American people are insane."

 

[15357]

That was a joke, you know.


Besides, telephone polls aren't from AOL, and randomly chosen 1000 people is a statistically valid number.

 

[Moto]

That was a joke, you know.


Besides, telephone polls aren't from AOL, and randomly chosen 1000 people is a statistically valid number.

The AOL thing is not the focus of my point. The point is that 1,000 people being polled from their telephones does not give the associated press or anyone else any reason to refer to their data as the opinions of the American people. Really, it only reflects the thoughts of the 1,000 people it polled.

Their headline shouldn't be "Americans Predict Attacks in 2007." They shouldn't say "only a minority of the people in the U.S. think...." That is misleading. Look at everyone's post in here besides my own.

More than 18,000 people attend a local University. Do you think that selecting a small 1,000 people out of a school of over 18,000 people in a nation of over 300,000,000 people is statistically valid?

 

[nofx]

Fortunately most of those 25% are concentrated in particular regions of the country.
I think the world (and the current United States) would be a much better place if the country had remained split after the civil war.

The north probably would have taken all of canada and above, and the south would have expanded down to mexico and south america and cuba.. we even see this with certain treaties between america and british, trying to curb southern "destiny." so your proclamation may just be incorrect.

 

[PvtRyan]

If only. But, then we'd have to worry about slavery in the south, which likely would've been stopped by now, but still.

Alas, 25% seems about right seeing as how the US has about 80% or so a Christian majority. At least it isn't 50%.

Actually, it is 50%. From the same, or another study, I don't know, ~25% was certain Jesus would come back within the next 50 years, another ~25% said he may come back. At least half of the US is batshit insane.

Or at least 46%:

Some 46 percent of Americans take a literalist view of creation (40 percent believe that God has guided creation over the course of millions of years). This means that 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

- Sam Harris

 

[NeptuneUK]

The general populace of the United States of America is a perfect example of dysgenics in action....

 

[highlander]

american's predict about predicting

 

[Moto]

The general populace of the United States of America is a perfect example of dysgenics in action....

In what sense and why do you see it that way?

 

[DeusExMachina]

Actually, it is 50%. From the same, or another study, I don't know, ~25% was certain Jesus would come back within the next 50 years, another ~25% said he may come back. At least half of the US is batshit insane.

Or at least 46%:
- Sam Harris

Hmm.

I...disagree.

 

[Sainku]

I have a hard time believing that. Not that half of the US isn't batshit insane, I just don't think that is one of the reasons why. I doubt half of these polls were even started before the results were already down on paper.

 

[Direwolf]

"Do you really think that one fourth of the American population is retarded?"
"Dude, at least one fourth."
"Yeah definitely."

But for the record:

The telephone poll of 1,000 adults was conducted Dec. 12-14 by Ipsos, an international polling firm. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

I'm always a little skeptical of telephone polls, since I think you have to be marginally insane to take one in the first place.

 

[Uriel]

Good Heck, people believe in Jesus, get over it.

 

[Qonfused]

I'm always a little skeptical of telephone polls, since I think you have to be marginally insane to take one in the first place.

Truth.

Plus with most of those you get something free in return for answering. So people just answer whatever.

 

[Geogaddi]

Good Heck, people believe in Jesus, get over it.

Thing is, it's not as harmless as it sounds. It's scary when a large portion of people in a nation would see international war or war in the middle east as a good thing because it signals or is a catalyst for the second coming of Christ. It's even scarier when those people elect leaders with the same ideas.



You think those numbers are bad? Where I live probably 9/10 people would call themselves Christian. Those expecting a second coming are probably greater than 50%.

 

[Fliko]

90% of statistics are made up

 

[Geogaddi]

I'll admit that I made those up based on personal experience.

 

[Tollbooth Willie]

99.9% of my statistics are either bullshit or result from......wait....

 

[Tagaziel]

I dread the coming of the dihydrogen monoxide then!

 

[CptStern]

are insane.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...POLL?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Fewer than half the public think it likely the U.S. will go to war with Iran or North Korea. Should it come down to that, 40 percent think the battle will be with Iran while 26 percent said North Korea.

Aw, darn.

if they can find it

 

[Element Alpha]

Why do they all pick australia? (nice find stern)

 

[CptStern]

cuz it's labeled as Iran

 

[<RJMC>]

if they can find it

*respect for americans -90*