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LOL, "believe".
I get these polls are about trying to measure public understanding of all things reality-based, but reading that is like hearing some creationist going on about how they don't "believe in evolution.
I guess if put $1.50 gas on my pedonald vision board, it will be so the next time I go to a gas station...
did we not have facts and stats? believe?
I saw a tattered, shredded Trump-Vance flag hanging from a telephone pole in a boony town yesterday, and it felt like such an appropriate metaphor to today's US.
And it was better onder Trump 1
And better onder Obama
And better under Bush
Wait is there a continuous downward trend???
It was lower under Biden. For once the average schmuck is right.
Impossible, I refuse to believe that the majority of Americans are capable of recognizing reality.
“Americans overwhelmingly believe their eyes”
What do you mean "believe"? It's not an opinion
It is at this moment I would like to remind everyone that 100 is the average IQ, which necessarily means that half of the people that walk among us are rocking double digit IQs.
It's not necessarily half. There could be a group that is a fair bit less than half, but are so dumb they throw the averages off.
IQ Georg is an outlier and should not be considered
It's a normal distribution so it's pretty damn close to half
Sure, but there are going to be brain injuries and other disabilities that have a limiting effect on IQ, which would lower the mean relative to the median at least a little. And it's hard to imagine there's an equivalent upward trend of genius outliers.
No, 100 is the median IQ, but that doesn’t preclude there being a lot of people with exactly 100 IQ. Thus there would be less than half of the population below 100 (and also less than half above 100).
Think about how dumb the average person is, then realize half the population is even fucking dumber.
That quote from Carlin is one that often comes to mind, LOL.
It's alarming to learn how accurate that actually is. People often talk about how comedians are basically today's philosophers and I can understand why.
The measurements on numeracy and literacy in the United States explains quite a bit about one's everyday experience. I mean, I went to university and graduated. I got mostly A's in K-12. I was not valedictorian. I did not have a 4.0 in university. I don't have a PhD. I consider myself someone with about average intelligence, but I applied myself. I read rather widely. I try to apply logic to situations and assess new material as it comes in.
I don't think this is some high bar for an adult. Honestly, I consider the above the bare minimum. Often it felt like I was coasting in high school and parts of university.
But everyday experiences and seeing how other adults behave and what they believe and accept as "fact" seems to constitute a baffling array of the ridiculous and the silly. When you remember things like this, it makes a bit more sense:
This is a post truth society
Voters are just dumb in general. They love to revel only in the good parts of the past when they can't cope with the present. Which is understandably so, because wallowing nostalgia is said to be a natural antidepressant for humans. In any case, Americans thought the economy was better under Trump 1.0 when Biden was in office, who had to contend with Covid and fixing the damage created by the Republicans. And now, voters are full of regret and think Biden's administration is better? They get what they voted for! No take backsies!
Who gives a shit about opinion? It's just an objective fact. What that dipshits supporters have deluded themselves into believing doesn't change that.
Well of course, our standard of living have declined every year since the seventies. We take a pay cut every year because they changed the way inflation is measured to understate it, the old measure averages 5 to 8% a year just by 2008 while the new measure is like 2 to 3%. It is a compound fucking that just by 2008 would have seen your average Social Security check be worth $1,300 more a month. It really is like that. Numbers Racket, Harper's Magazine, 2008.
That said the rate of compound fuckery has obviously increased under this President as we all knew it would.
That is really insane. It's a fact that gas has become more expensive after Trump attacked Iran. The media is full of articles about expensive gas. That is something you can see just by driving to a gas station. You can experience that in your daily life, see the prices with your own eyes. And 35% of Americans believe that gas was more expensive under Biden, just a little of over one year ago?
I kind of can understand that you are getting a wrong impression of things outside of your personal sphere when watching the wrong media. If you're living somewhere rural and if you've never been in Los Angeles, you can get a wrong impression of Los Angeles if your media reporting is wrong. But for something that everyone can experience everywhere?
I think people (correctly) assume that the poll will be used as evidence to criticize Trump, and if they support him they don't want to give his opponents that evidence. So they'll say whatever doesn't imply criticism of him.
So over 1/3 of the population are bootlickers.
I think I remember reading that the act of remembering something is neurologically indistinguishable from just straight up imagining something, but I might be making that up
For real tho, everyone's memory is crap and most people won't/can't take the time to research things they think they remember
Yeah, we know, Trump still has about a 30-40% approval rating. We know! It's in every damn poll.
Also, since they're just asking AI now, instead of surveying actual people, what's the damn point of these polls?
Replace "believe" with "have the receipts to prove"
Those that believe that it's cheaper under under Trump in survey either don't know how much things cost or willfully voted for Trump in the survey knowing that things are more expensive
Or they're twisting themselves in mental knots, while living deep in denial.
But still voting RED
voting against their own best interests. it's what they do.
Kudlow can piss off. The only success for MAGA is creating more expensive shit thanks to food prices.
Is it as terrifying for others as it is for me? Being confronted by the fact that a third of the nation is absolutely unhinged? That's a lot of people.