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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Started conversation Apr 5, 2004
Odds on that God exists, says scientist....about 67% chance!
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/sciences/story/0,12243,1164894,00.html
11% of the Brittish questioned say that Hitler is fictional and Blackadder is real!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3559065
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/04/04/nhitler04.xml
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IMSoP - Safely transferred to the 5th (or 6th?) h2g2 login system Posted Apr 5, 2004
But remember: 83.5% of statistics are made up on the spot! 
[I'm going to go all serious now 
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I have to admit I wouldn't have known the John Churchill/Blenheim Palace one - to be honest, I couldn't be sure I'd pick Blenheim Palace out of a list of realistic-sounding palace names, and I don't see that that's a particularly big deal.
Actually, reading through, I have to admit I begin to doubt the methodology of this research (sorry, I'm being a Psychology/stats 
now):
"almost a third thought that the Cold War was not a real event, while 6 per cent believed that the War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells's fictional account of a Martian invasion, did take place."
I'm sorry, but I think they're really talking up their findings for maximum shock value there, and misrepresenting the questions they actually asked - like "was {the War of the Worlds/the Cold War} real?", which isn't the same question at all if you think about it.
That said, it's probably true that a lot of people are pretty clueless about history, but then, they're probably clueless about a lot of things - we can't all know everything. I guess a lot of people just consider history OMTWA! [A683480]
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pheloxi | is it time to wear a hat? | Posted Apr 6, 2004
the global vilage is according to European Institute for Media (EIM) not true. I do not agree!
I wrote about EIM in a past journal F64198?thread=380275
EIM asked 30,000 Europeans that sounds better 2000 Brits .
the link on OMTWA! A683480 page is missing A in the link to The Someonelse Effect! 588567 > A588567
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badger party tony party green party Posted Apr 6, 2004
Ok maybe some of those people might have just had the first name to blurt out of their mouths recorded, but DNA touches on how little as individuals we actually know in "Mostly Harmless". When stranded on a primitive planet the only thing that Arthur Dent knows how to do from start to finish at all well is make sandwhiches.
Still it is kind of worrying
one love 
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Keseral - lost... Posted Apr 9, 2004
Were the knives perfectly proportioned? Balanced?
good.
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