One-fifth of the people polled at the National Science and Engineering Week in Birmingham believe lightsabres are real, with a quarter of them also believing in teleportation. Half of the people believe in the Men In Black memory erasers, and a further 40 per cent of the people took Back to the Future II too seriously, by believing hoverboards exist in our day and age.
Hilariously, 18 per cent of the people who took part in the survey believe that you can actually see gravity. [Birmingham Science City via AOL via Neatorama]
Ross Weekes
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 10:51 AMOh come now, this is just a chance to cheer up the Americans : P
I doubt these reflect real responses.. Like how X% of Australians put down “Jedi” as their religion last census!
David Gray
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 11:10 AMPeople can come up with statistics to prove anything. Forfty percent of all people know that.
Damo
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 11:26 AM…and 65% of people on the roads are caused by accidents!
Ok, I’ll get me coat.
Chris
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 11:12 AMI’d take this article with a truck load of salt, quoted from the original:
> Seven out of ten adults questioned thought it was
> impossible to move objects with their mind, yet
> researchers at Coventry University’s Serious
> Games Institute have collaborated with
> California-based company, NeuroSky, to develop
> a headset which can read analogue electrical
> brainwaves and turn them into digital signals
This is like saying “10 out of 11 adults do not believe eating an apple sideways can kill 300,000 people in an instant, but this is true because the guy that drove Bob, the handy man to the Manhattan Project labs every day ate his apples like that, and if it wasn’t for Bob, they’d never have fixed that rusty drawer which stopped annoying the chief scientists and allowed them to design a Bomb”
Barney Stinson
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 11:52 AMI’d say about 83% BS… I could get some of my friend to answer in this way too…
Awnshegh
Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 12:12 PMIf I completed a questionaire with stupid questions I’d be inclined to provide stupid answers too.
Chris Brown
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 12:39 AMI put Jedi on the census :)
Sandre Padua
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 10:59 AMtrue? i put sith come to the dark side
Ben Howse
Friday, March 18, 2011 at 3:58 PMBut hover-boards do exist…
http://www.futurehorizons.net/hoverboard.htm