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Showing posts with label belief. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 01, 2009

Belief Survey results

Results from the "Belief Survey"

It's been a few weeks since I closed off this survey, so I thought I'd better supply the results.

 


 


There are people who can read other people's minds.
True
23%
Probably True
57%
Equally likely/Don’t know
34%
Probably false
1116%
False
4669%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
People can be cured by faith healers.
True
23%
Probably True
46%
Equally likely/Don’t know
913%
Probably false
1218%
False
4060%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
The positions of the sun, stars and planets at birth can affect a person's body, character and destiny.
True
11%
Probably True
11%
Equally likely/Don’t know
34%
Probably false
69%
False
5684%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
There are people who can see into the future.
True
23%
Probably True
46%
Equally likely/Don’t know
34%
Probably false
812%
False
5075%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
Poltergeists (ghosts) can move physical objects.
True
57%
Probably True
34%
Equally likely/Don’t know
34%
Probably false
46%
False
5278%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
There are people who can talk to the spirits of the dead.
True
46%
Probably True
23%
Equally likely/Don’t know
57%
Probably false
46%
False
5278%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
After a physical body dies, a person can reincarnate in another physical body.
True
11%
Probably True
11%
Equally likely/Don’t know
812%
Probably false
812%
False
4973%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
There are people who have been possessed by demons.
True
34%
Probably True
34%
Equally likely/Don’t know
913%
Probably false
57%
False
4770%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
There is life elsewhere in the universe.
True
1218%
Probably True
3451%
Equally likely/Don’t know
1522%
Probably false
34%
False
34%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
Alien spacecraft have landed on the Earth.
True
00%
Probably True
00%
Equally likely/Don’t know
1116%
Probably false
2842%
False
2842%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.
There are people who have been abducted by space aliens.
True
00%
Probably True
00%
Equally likely/Don’t know
57%
Probably false
1928%
False
4364%
People may select more than one checkbox, so percentages may add up to more than 100%.