• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    It feels like 30% of Americans will consistently give whatever they think the wrong answer is. In US polling, 70% is basically everyone.

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        8 days ago

        The study you’re presumably referencing actually is said to quote it at 7%. So great news, there are about a quarter as many morons as you thought!

        The other great news is that, the Innovation Center For US Dairy (the source of our famous chocolate milk study) wasn’t done asking and answering serious journalistic questions!

        https://www.usdairy.com/news-articles/do-cows-eat-skittles

        Thanks for bringing this group to my attention. Their rigorous and thoughtful work is crucial because as we all know, if the questions are insane, the answers don’t matter.

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          7 days ago

          I love that cows eat chocolate because it’s good for them. That made my day. I’ll try to forget about the whole industrial farming nightmare behind it though…

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          8 days ago

          Thanks! I considered looking the true stat up but it was just too silly and I couldn’t be bothered. This was even better than looking it up myself because now you gave us bonus silliness.

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        8 days ago

        “Democracy is when you vote for my guy or else. Change the voting system so you can vote for your guy but still have your vote count against bad guy? FUCK YOU!

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          8 days ago

          Valid complaint but bad framing. It’s not in the interests of the two parties to change the voting system, so they’re never going to make it an option. You want that, you’ll have to stop asking politely.