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blackvault
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 Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 2:05 am Post subject: Chart 3 on Scripps UFO poll |
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Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 16:38. By THOMAS HARGROVE and GUIDO H. STEMPEL, Scripps Howard News Service national
A survey of 1,003 adults conducted by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University found that 56 percent say it is either "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that intelligent life exists on other planets. Here is how different groups responded to the question.
Entire nation .................. 56
Men ............................ 62
Women .......................... 50
18-24 years old................. 74
25-44 .......................... 56
45-64 .......................... 60
65 or older .................... 46
Lives in major city ............ 54
Smaller city ................... 57
Suburb ......................... 61
Rural area ..................... 53
Northeast ...................... 52
South .......................... 56
Midwest ........................ 48
West ........................... 65
White .......................... 54
African-American ............... 54
Hispanic ....................... 61
Asian-American/Other ........... 67
Strong Democrat ................ 61
Lean Toward the Democrats ...... 60
Independent .................... 60
Lean Toward the Republicans .... 56
Strong Republican .............. 40
Very Conservative .............. 42
Somewhat Conservative .......... 53
Middle of the Road ............. 64
Somewhat Liberal ............... 58
Very Liberal ................... 65
Not A High School Graduate ..... 80
Graduated High School .......... 54
Attended Some College .......... 49
College Graduate ............... 60
Post Graduate Studies .......... 58
Income Below $25,000 ........... 56
25,000 to $40,000 .............. 48
40,000 to $60,000 .............. 53
60,000 to $80,000 .............. 64
80,000 to $100,000 ............. 64
Above $100,000 ................. 62
Attended Church Recently ....... 51
Not Attended Church Recently ... 63
Evangelical Protestant ......... 38
Other Protestant ............... 62
Roman Catholic ................. 60
No Religious Preference ........ 66
Source: National survey of 1,003 adult residents of the United States conducted by Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University from May 11-28.
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, http://www.scrippsnews.com)
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somewhat interesting.
i would say no.
but the education part is rather amusing. |
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TNuke
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Interesting numbers. Seems like it indicates that different people's belief in ET is based on different rationale. Me personally it does not make sense to have a universe as big as this one, filled with galaxies, stars and planets and have life in only one location. That seems illogical.
I think its hard to get accurate answers in that kind of survey anyway. Many people play it safe or are antagonistic because we've gone so long without an official admission by the establishment. About half of the people don't want to believe anyway ("scaridy cats, scaridy cats").
You would need to poll 10x - 25x that number of people to make it scientific. Still, the numbers are interesting. Need more categories, especially for religion, plus there is more than 2 choices of political ideology (despite the stilted American political scene). |
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