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America the Weird – the Lunatic 20%
Started by Lex, Dec 18 2012 05:58 PM
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Posted 27 January 2015 - 01:45 PM
"This is a battle of who blinks first, and we've cut off our eyelids"
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Posted 15 June 2017 - 09:04 PM
Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.
As laughable as this sounds it goes against my contention that about 20% of Americans are flat out nuts. The percentage should have been higher. Then I read further into the article.
One Department of Agriculture study, commissioned in the early ’90s, found that nearly 1 in 5 adults did not know that hamburgers are made from beef.
Ah. My faith in American lunacy has been restored.
"I don't understand what's wrong with thinking of correlation as a pricing convention the way one thinks of Black-Scholes vol. I mean, vol curves aren't "real" anyway, but nobody uses local vol models to price vanilla options." - Taion
"But this is blatant ultracrepidarianism on my part." - Taion
I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.
"once the penis came out, there was discussions as to why we didn't order the testicles" - Daniel describing a meal in China
"But this is blatant ultracrepidarianism on my part." - Taion
I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.
"once the penis came out, there was discussions as to why we didn't order the testicles" - Daniel describing a meal in China
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Posted 16 June 2017 - 12:32 AM
The polls and studies are often (usually?) biased.
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Posted 16 June 2017 - 12:51 AM
The polls are RIGGED!!!
"I don't understand what's wrong with thinking of correlation as a pricing convention the way one thinks of Black-Scholes vol. I mean, vol curves aren't "real" anyway, but nobody uses local vol models to price vanilla options." - Taion
"But this is blatant ultracrepidarianism on my part." - Taion
I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.
"once the penis came out, there was discussions as to why we didn't order the testicles" - Daniel describing a meal in China
"But this is blatant ultracrepidarianism on my part." - Taion
I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.
"once the penis came out, there was discussions as to why we didn't order the testicles" - Daniel describing a meal in China
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Posted 16 June 2017 - 01:01 AM
Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.
As laughable as this sounds it goes against my contention that about 20% of Americans are flat out nuts. The percentage should have been higher. Then I read further into the article.
One Department of Agriculture study, commissioned in the early ’90s, found that nearly 1 in 5 adults did not know that hamburgers are made from beef.
Ah. My faith in American lunacy has been restored.
Personally, I find it charming that you think that most burgers are made from beef.
I, myself, try not to think too much about the "chicken" I get from Chinese delivery joints.
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Posted 16 June 2017 - 01:28 AM
Glad burgers are not on my diet!
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Posted 16 June 2017 - 02:17 PM
The polls are RIGGED!!!
Hillary is stuffing the ballots from her spam server, slowing down the internet.
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Posted 16 June 2017 - 03:56 PM
The Washington Post article described some of the other curious survey results. A significant number of people believe that onions and lettuce aren't vegetables for example.
Me? I'm glad wine is a fruit...
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Posted 18 June 2017 - 01:18 AM
http://www.npr.org/t...oryId=487654380
http://www.publicpol...l-results-.html
Really this measures the percentage of people who like trolling pollsters. I hope.
That or there are a lot of headless people walking around that are just invisible to me.
SMITH: As far as David remembers, by the way, 4 percent of Americans answered that they had been decapitated.
http://www.publicpol...l-results-.html
- 4% of voters say they believe “lizard people” control our societies by gaining political power
Really this measures the percentage of people who like trolling pollsters. I hope.
That or there are a lot of headless people walking around that are just invisible to me.
I didn't tip at Per Se either.
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Posted 18 June 2017 - 01:21 AM
That "lizard people" question is even sillier in the actual poll: http://www.publicpol...ries_040213.pdf
Do you believe that shape-shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate our societies, or not?
I didn't tip at Per Se either.
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Posted 18 June 2017 - 05:53 AM
You need to watch out for the Deros. https://en.wikipedia...d_Sharpe_Shaver BTW, is Elon Musk building some underground cities?
Then that happened.
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