Comments on: Bigfoot Believers: Americans vs. Canadians

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:50:44 +0000

Such surveys are a bunch of nonsense, anyway. The use of the term “believe” is one problem, the assumptions (e.g. “never-seen”) carried in the positioning of the questions, and the general results tell us nothing, really, of any importance.

By: DWA

DWA — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:32:56 +0000

“The rarely-seen, or never-seen (depending on your view), creature…”

This position bespeaks utter ignorance of the evidence. If one takes reports of encounters at face value – and there is no more reason to do this than not – people are seeing these animals at least as often as they are the ones confirmed by science.

By: shill

shill — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:09:36 +0000

That’s because it just went up after my comment was posted. Notice the date.

By: Loren Coleman

Loren Coleman — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:56:43 +0000

I looked for about five seconds and found the total report, plus methodology in a nine-page PDF here.

By: PoeticsOfBigfoot

PoeticsOfBigfoot — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:25:11 +0000

Shill, I completely agree. I was wondering about the source myself; if I think of the people I know, those believing in Bigfoot are way less than twenty percent. Way less than ten percent, even. If this poll actually exists, the demographics of the people surveyed would be very important for a serious cryptozoologist to consider.

By: shill

shill — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 14:24:03 +0000

What’s weird is that I can’t get the actual survey results for this. It’s been reported by Douglas Todd at the Vancouver Sun several days ago (2/29 I think). I emailed him to ask about the report (always go to the original source) and he said it’s not been released. I’m not sure how he got it then. So, I know it might be silly to be dubious of such things but survey questions are very tricky to word in order to get a valid result. I’m curious about the background and methods in this survey.

I’m annoyed that the Vancouver Sun is the only one with the data. Yet, it’s been picked up and re-reported. Hmm.

By: Paul Sims via Facebook

Paul Sims via Facebook — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:37:29 +0000

I believe!