Astrology – Scientific Poll Results

I’ve found a poll I set up on Mister Poll. The aim was to perm answers to end up with nonsensical conclusions. For instance if a large majority of people said that it was unlikely that people were connected to Neanderthals and in a later question a majority thought their neighbour could be an example of a Neanderthal then you get the result “At least n% per cent of people thought it unlikely that they were descended from Neanderthals, but that their neighbors probably were”. I thought it would be a way of generating an easy press release for the i-science course at Leicester. However it hasn’t worked out and I’m too lazy to work out the odder combinations for now.

Nevertheless there are some interesting results: 11% of people think “The biggest problem with Genetically Modified food is the ‘Alien’ effect where evil genes leap out of your stomach explosively.”

12% of respondents agreed that “People only go into science to pull chicks.”

68% of people think Evolution is a fact, though only 60% are so certain about Gravity.

19% of people would prefer the Leap Year Day to be on June 31, so we get an extra sunny day.

and finally my favourite: 10% of people think the discovery of Sedna will make gasoline prices rise. Only 2% think it will make horoscopes even more accurate.

Full results available at: http://www.misterpoll.com/results.mpl?id=683967483 or cast your own vote at: http://www.misterpoll.com/683967483.html