"Poll: 29% Think Armed Rebellion Might Soon Be Necessary"

[james_davis_nicoll]

Three in 10 registered American voters believe an armed rebellion might be necessary in the next few years, according to the results of a staggering poll released Wednesday by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind.

Comments

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

Obligatory link to the crazification factor (http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html).

The eternal problem with these kinds of polls is, how many people genuinely think armed rebellion might become necessary, and how many just like saying it? Some proportion of that 29% didn't put any more thought into it than "sounds like a cool video game, ha ha!"

Another non-LJer got dinged for it a few threads ago, so I thought I'd just point out that people without LJ accounts can't make real links in LJ comments. I do know how to HTML, honest.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

...yeah. Crazification Factor always to be allowed for.

Explains Harper up here.

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh GOD!!!!!!!

*ahem*

sorry

[dewline.livejournal.com]

John Rogers' math too close to the mark?

[agoodwinsmith.livejournal.com]

I knew it. LJ ate my overwrought comment yesterday. Phoo. Suffice it to say that I just loath Harper from top to bottom, and that he would make the Anti Christ blench.

I'm having difficulty recapturing the mathematical contortions I went through, so I am just going to wave my hands, & shout: HARPER - ARRRGH.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

metahacker's lizard people link suggests there's a "will bullshit pollsters" factor as well.

[bwross.livejournal.com]

And the more outrageous the question, the more tempting it becomes.

There's also the pedantic factor... many fluorides are very dangerous (eg HF, FOOF).

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

And the 27% of the vote Jack Wu received when he ran for office. He's a member of Westboro Baptist who ran for school board in Topeka.

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

The eternal problem with these kinds of polls is, how many people genuinely think armed rebellion might become necessary, and how many just like saying it?

Or have other reasons for mocking the poll.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/

Here's a good analysis of non-serious answers on another poll.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Heh. Love this bit: (a friend on Facebook pointed out that 5% of Obama voters claimed to believe that Obama was the Anti-Christ, which seems to be another piece of evidence in favor of a Lizardman’s Constant of 4-5%. On the other hand, I do enjoy picturing someone standing in a voting booth, thinking to themselves “Well, on the one hand, Obama is the Anti-Christ. On the other, do I really want four years of Romney?”)

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

Or they think God is evil and the Antichrist is wholly justified.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

Satanists for Obama!