August 18, 2007
SPAM and Creationism
58% of USAians don’t realise that people might try and scam them online, and probably trust everything they get via email. In other news, 55% of USAians believe that God created humans in their present form.
Anybody see the correlation?
(Via The Consumerist)
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Chang Yang said,
August 18, 2007 at 10:16 am
Not exactly a correlation.
While both statistics are a measure of ignorance, the population of creationists are not necessarily the same as naive internet users. For example, similar surveys in UK might show that 20% population believes in creationism while 60% population are ignorant about online scams.
So I would say that while both statistics indicate ignorance among the population, there are not necessarily a correlation between both.
Richard said,
August 18, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I’m aware the argument isn’t exactly sound - it was meant as a joke. Still, it would be interesting to see similar statistics worldwide - THEN we might have a true correlation.
Thanks for stopping by!