Thread: Survey shows that British public is wrong about nearly everything

must be getting fed some nasty misinformation by the daily mail and the likes

brits don't have any sort of handle on social issues

i like this one

Teen pregnancy is thought to be 25 times higher than the official estimates: 15 per cent of of girls under 16 are thought to become pregnant every year, when official figures say the amount is closer to 0.6 per cent.

British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows - Home News - UK - The Independent

The tabloids, so called reality shows like Benefits Street or On Benefits and Proud, Jeremy Kyle, social media, the list just goes on & on. The great British unwashed seem to literally believe anything they're told, without question.

i doubt this is purely a british phenomena

fox news viewers in the states are probably more wrong ...some still think weapons of mass destruction were found in iraq

interesting survey though....especially the massive factors of wrongness

Originally Posted by November Rain

The great British unwashed seem to literally believe anything they're told, without question.

Wasn't that the whole idea, from the beginning?

Crime: some 58 per cent of people do not believe crime is falling, when the Crime Survey for England and Wales shows that incidents of crime were 19 per cent lower in 2012 than in 2006/07 and 53 per cent lower than in 1995. Some 51 per cent think violent crime is rising, when it has fallen from almost 2.5 million incidents in 2006/07 to under 2 million in 2012.

There is an interesting book on this by Steven Pinker where he highlights the decline in violence and crime in human society.

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined: Steven Pinker, Arthur Morey: 9781455883110: Amazon.com: Books

I have only dipped into it as I am still reading his earlier book 'How the Mind Works' but even that earlier book covers this a bit. Seems human perception will always be pessemistic about this due to the nature of news reporting and the way memory works.

Then there is confirmation bias, a considerably more powerful tool than I had previously thought (in the right hands). As the internet era has proved, flood the average Jo with information, and they will just select from it to 'confirm' their pre-existing bias. Perhaps the next great leap of the human mind is to differentiate information from Facts.

Of course lets all Completely or conveniently forget that the Ruskies believed in Lenin , The Chinese believed in Mao ,the Germans believed in Hitler, and up to date the rice farmers of Thailand believed in Thaksin

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

i doubt this is purely a british phenomena

fox news viewers in the states are probably more wrong ...some still think weapons of mass destruction were found in iraq

interesting survey though....especially the massive factors of wrongness

No, they firmly believe the WMD's were shifted out of the Rak just before 'Stormin' Norman' went in.

^
like they know where eye rak is

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

^
like they know where eye rak is

Oh, they know it's over yonder in rag head country somewhere...

Originally Posted by sabang

Originally Posted by November Rain

The great British unwashed seem to literally believe anything they're told, without question.

Wasn't that the whole idea, from the beginning?

I'm sure it was. Just pretty depressing having to live here & listen to it. Gave up debating the issues a long time ago.

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

survey shows that british public is wrong about nearly everything

Tex sure to agree.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

i doubt this is purely a british phenomena

fox news viewers in the states are probably more wrong ...some still think weapons of mass destruction were found in iraq

interesting survey though....especially the massive factors of wrongness

No, they firmly believe the WMD's were shifted out of the Rak just before 'Stormin' Norman' went in.

Quite true Booners there is no proof in any shape or form that Saddam did not move his WDM's before the shit really hit the fan

^^ He's not alone.

Oh, good morning piwi.

almost as much as ghazigate, eh booner.

Originally Posted by sabang

almost as much as ghazigate, eh booner.

Heh...that one is still simmering in the background. Recall how long it took to get the 'goods' on Tricky Dick and that was with a compliant press at the time?

I recently took up fishing again, after a long hiatus. With limited success, thus far.
I wish the angry werkin' class were fish, heck you wouldn't even need bait.

Great thread!

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by piwanoi

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

i doubt this is purely a british phenomena

fox news viewers in the states are probably more wrong ...some still think weapons of mass destruction were found in iraq

interesting survey though....especially the massive factors of wrongness

No, they firmly believe the WMD's were shifted out of the Rak just before 'Stormin' Norman' went in.

Quite true Booners there is no proof in any shape or form that Saddam did not move his WDM's before the shit really hit the fan

Got that right. But, but, whatever seems to be the rush with those trucks loading out before Stormin' Norman went in?

One of those pesky items that really gets up the Libs nose...

You don't think Syria made all those chemical weapons by itself?

Or this

Originally Posted by Necron99

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by piwanoi

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

i doubt this is purely a british phenomena

fox news viewers in the states are probably more wrong ...some still think weapons of mass destruction were found in iraq

interesting survey though....especially the massive factors of wrongness

No, they firmly believe the WMD's were shifted out of the Rak just before 'Stormin' Norman' went in.

Quite true Booners there is no proof in any shape or form that Saddam did not move his WDM's before the shit really hit the fan

Got that right. But, but, whatever seems to be the rush with those trucks loading out before Stormin' Norman went in?

One of those pesky items that really gets up the Libs nose...

You don't think Syria made all those chemical weapons by itself?

Another one of those pesky items that intrude on the "It's All Bush's Fault" mind-set.

^ or that.

Originally Posted by November Rain

The great British unwashed seem to literally believe anything they're told, without question.

And theres you believing the Governments figures without questioning them ......