Science gave up on the search for what many peoples around the globe already know to be living creatures. Then science tries to sell the world on there non existence.

The sad part is that its working, for the most part. Society in general, text book educated only knows what it should know, what they want us to know.

Persecution will always behold those who think outside the realm of common thinking, who really likes ridicule? I’ll bet that even our hairy fore fathers of the stone age were subject to ridicule when they first thought of walking upright, or thought of the wheel, or decided to actually cook the meat first.

Nothing changes!

Me too. For example, in reading the post I get the impression the results are saying men are more skeptical, educated people are more skeptical and the skeptics are actually the ones who have gone out there and researched the questions.

But there is an implicit assumption that persons with a higher educational qualification are more intelligent than those with a lower, or without a qualification.

There may equally be a significant number of uneducated, but highly intelligent people who have also researched the questions, and do believe the evidence points to (for example) the existence of a specific cryptid.

Unfortunately, the resolution of the results presented in this post will never give us that information.

What I’m saying is that while only 37% of people believe a place can be haunted, perhaps 30% (well over half those who believe) have actually researched the topic, are intelligent (although perhaps not educated), and came to the conclusion that hauntings occur. So what if the other 63% don’t believe it, if they also have never looked into the question?

You just can’t read too much into such statistics. They’re a great starting place for asking further questions of the population though; but I am supposing that is unlikely to happen.

If the respondants’ contact details were kept, perhaps they could be followed up for an open discussion focus group, but again - I’m sure the two crypto-related questions weren’t the primary objective here; I’m talking very theoretically.

There you go. That’s what you believe.

But we’re getting a little esoteric.

The “politically conservative college-educated white male Protestant” demographic pretty much describes the typical TBRC member.

I also believe you can get 17% of the populace to agree that the Moon’s made of green cheese.

Any poll is as good as the folks conducting it: good poll, good results.

….DEEP breath….) lol

Aaaaanyway, “belief in” Bigfoot goes DOWN with rising education level. (On yes, this one lone survey.) I’d think that ability to evaluate evidence would go UP with education level.

And then I had a thought about the “evidence” our Ph.D’s are evaluating. It’s right at hand, in the checkout line at the grocery store.

sigh….if the tabloids had never gotten hold of the Big Guy, we’d be reading peer-review articles speculating on the size of proposed Bigfoot reserves, based on the data provided by radio-collared Bigf….

….RADIO-COLLARED Bigf….

Um….GO NATIONAL STAR!!!!

One hopes science won’t treat the Big Guy like it treats most everything else, eh?

Interesting food for thought, regardless…