Your polls of stupid things believed by people.

There is a lot of money going into the “Global Warming Hoax” claim, so from a marketing point of view that one is a little like pointing out that people know the visual landscape of the logos for big corporations and don’t really know the visual landscape of types of trees around them.

13% of voters think Barack Obama is the anti-Christ, including 22% of Romney voters.
There is a way in which some conspiracy theory “agree” pollings are just assertations of vehemint oppostion.  This also goes to to the percentage of Democrats who were polled with 9/11 Conspiracy theories — and I will also note there was always a bit of wiggle room within some questions.   [What does it mean “the US government allowed 9/11 to happen“… which, is true to some extent by definition.] But I think nothing might be moreso than asking if you think the President is the anti-Christ.  I have no way of digging into these 13 percents and 22 percent figures.  The more interesting number would be the percentage of Obama voters who think Obama is the anti-Christ.

A bemused comment to one poll:
“15% of voters say the government or the media adds mind-controlling technology to TV broadcast signals (the so-called Tinfoil Hat crowd)”
This technology is commonly known as “commercials”.

And two figures to poke at.
Just 5% of voters believe that Paul McCartney actually died in 1966
4% of voters say they believe “lizard people” control our societies by gaining political power.

The “Paul McCartney died” poll doesn’t really have any repercussions in terms of politics — that I know of.  (Also a yes answer might be a method to shout “Woot” to the Beatles, so I don’t know if this poll means anything.)  But the 4 percent of voters casting their lot for Lizard People — this being the “David Icke” crowd.  A thing about this figure.  If you believe Lizard People control our societies — what’s the point of voting?  The more interesting polling date might be to see what percentage of people who believe Lizard People control our society …  vote.

Here’s some more data points, which an Allison Morris requested I share here.

Question number one… “Who is President Obama’s nominee for Secretary of State”.  A basic problem with this multiple choice poll… if I were to do it, I would throw in Chuck Hagel for the simple reason that he had been selected as Secretary of Defense, and I believe that the two stories would cross-current and lower the “correctly identify as Kerry” number a tad.
Also why does that John Kerry look like Michael Dukakis in the tank?

No, I’m not terribly surprised people don’t know Elizabeth Warren.  I would not be able to identify Syria on the map in a blind test I’m afraid, but I’d likely get this test answer right.   I may add that if you threw me these infographics instead of a photo, I wouldn’t blame anyone for not getting the names right.  (See Kerry too… and Boehner is not sufficiently orange in complexion.)
Did the test-makers just toss in Texas on the Same Sex Marriage questionaire to get a “stupid” percentage, and why didn’t it include for the “circuit crossing” effect a state like, say, Massachusetts?

My biggest take away from this is the Lizard People question, by the way.  No, really… I want to know what percentage of Lizard People people vote, and what the Lizard People voters base their voting choices on.  (It’s a bit like the “two party duoploy”, but without the suggestion of a lesser of two evils.)

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