“How Gullible Are We”

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That was the title of a science fair project 14 yo Nathan Zohner did in 1997. He got 43 of 50 9th graders to vote in favor of banning a chemical also known as “water” by presenting facts about water using its chemical name, dihydrogen monoxide.

Reading about it, I suspect that today, in 2021, many adults would have come to the same conclusion the majority of the 9th graders did. I saw a post about this on FB, with the caption that this helps explains some of the things going on now. Frankly, the more I think about it, the scarier it is.

A link for more information about Zohner and his science fair project….. Link

[sesfw]

I read something like this quite a while ago.  

Some guy was a 'professional' anti everything and someone placed a petition in front of him with the water chemical name.  He signed the petition and then they told him what he signed.  All of this was on video.  Classic case of 'foot in mouth' disease.

Three thumbs up to those kids ............ 

[Tennesseer]

Saw this years ago. Thespians should not be allowed to marry. Only heterosexuals should be allowed to marry.

[Artemis Windsong]

Sept 21, 2021 16:15:32 GMT -5 @pinkcshmere said:

That was the title of a science fair project 14 yo Nathan Zohner did in 1997. He got 43 of 50 9th graders to vote in favor of banning a chemical also known as “water” by presenting facts about water using its chemical name, dihydrogen monoxide.

Reading about it, I suspect that today, in 2021, many adults would have come to the same conclusion the majority of the 9th graders did. I saw a post about this on FB, with the caption that this helps explains some of the things going on now. Frankly, the more I think about it, the scarier it is.

A link for more information about Zohner and his science fair project….. Link

This would catch me. 

[dannylion]

Sept 21, 2021 20:16:49 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Saw this years ago. Thespians should not be allowed to marry. Only heterosexuals should be allowed to marry.

Apparently people are being asked whether Arabic numerals should be taught in American schools and supposedly a large number of respondents are against teaching Arabic numerals in American schools.  If the story is true, it is further evidence of the general ignorance of Americans in the wild.  It is also sad and depressing.  

[billisonboard]

Sept 21, 2021 21:20:00 GMT -5 dannylion said:

Sept 21, 2021 20:16:49 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Saw this years ago. Thespians should not be allowed to marry. Only heterosexuals should be allowed to marry.

Apparently people are being asked whether Arabic numerals should be taught in American schools and supposedly a large number of respondents are against teaching Arabic numerals in American schools.  If the story is true, it is further evidence of the general ignorance of Americans in the wild.  It is also sad and depressing.  

Not surprised a lot of us apparently don't remember that our numbers are called "Arabic numerals". Personally I consider it a trival fact of no real world importance. YMMV. And without details in regards to the asking process, I don't have an emotional reaction to people saying they shouldn't be taught.

[teen persuasion]

Just read this on the Mr Money Mustache forum:

Uh oh, y'all, they've caught on to us! Some Breitbart guy, John Nolte, has figured out that it's a vast leftwing conspiracy to TELL everybody to get vaccinated, knowing that conservatives wouldn't and that we could, in that way, use reverse psychology to finally kill them off!

The organized left is deliberately putting unvaccinated Trump supporters in an impossible position where they can either NOT get a life-saving vaccine or CAN feel like cucks caving to the ugliest, smuggest bullies in the world.

www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/18/nolte-anti-vaxxers-hype-benign-transmission-numbers-as-proof-vax-doesnt-work/

[Tennesseer]

Sept 21, 2021 21:20:00 GMT -5 dannylion said:

Sept 21, 2021 20:16:49 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Saw this years ago. Thespians should not be allowed to marry. Only heterosexuals should be allowed to marry.

Apparently people are being asked whether Arabic numerals should be taught in American schools and supposedly a large number of respondents are against teaching Arabic numerals in American schools.  If the story is true, it is further evidence of the general ignorance of Americans in the wild.  It is also sad and depressing.  

I remember that.

Who’s Afraid of Arabic Numerals?
Before there was a Western civilization, there was Islamic civilization.

Should Americans, as part of their school curriculum, learn Arabic numerals?

CivicScience, a Pittsburgh-based research firm, put that question to some 3,200 Americans recently in a poll seemingly about mathematics, but the outcome was a measure of students’ attitudes toward the Arab world. Some 56 percent of the respondents said, “No.” Fifteen percent had no opinion.

Those results, which quickly inspired more than 24,000 tweets, might have been sharply different had the pollsters explained what “Arabic numerals” are.

There are 10 of them: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9.

That fact prompted John Dick, the chief executive of the polling company, to label the finding “the saddest and funniest testament to American bigotry we’ve ever seen in our data.”

Link to NY Times article: link

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Sept 21, 2021 21:20:00 GMT -5 dannylion said:

Sept 21, 2021 20:16:49 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Saw this years ago. Thespians should not be allowed to marry. Only heterosexuals should be allowed to marry.

Apparently people are being asked whether Arabic numerals should be taught in American schools and supposedly a large number of respondents are against teaching Arabic numerals in American schools.  If the story is true, it is further evidence of the general ignorance of Americans in the wild.  It is also sad and depressing.  

I often forget they are Arabic that's not something that comes up in my daily conversations but I'm also not triggered by the word "Arabic" and smart enough to know I'm being set up if asked that type of question.
 
The more interesting one I thought was when people were asked if we should bomb Agribah.  You'd think more people would have picked up on that one because it's Disney.

[Opti]

Sept 22, 2021 8:59:06 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Sept 21, 2021 21:20:00 GMT -5 dannylion said:

Apparently people are being asked whether Arabic numerals should be taught in American schools and supposedly a large number of respondents are against teaching Arabic numerals in American schools.  If the story is true, it is further evidence of the general ignorance of Americans in the wild.  It is also sad and depressing.  

I often forget they are Arabic that's not something that comes up in my daily conversations but I'm also not triggered by the word "Arabic" and smart enough to know I'm being set up if asked that type of question.
 
The more interesting one I thought was when people were asked if we should bomb Agribah.  You'd think more people would have picked up on that one because it's Disney.

I rarely remember place names in most movies, so I would not have remembered it was a Disney place name.

[Opti]

Sept 21, 2021 22:00:33 GMT -5 teen persuasion said:

Just read this on the Mr Money Mustache forum:

Uh oh, y'all, they've caught on to us! Some Breitbart guy, John Nolte, has figured out that it's a vast leftwing conspiracy to TELL everybody to get vaccinated, knowing that conservatives wouldn't and that we could, in that way, use reverse psychology to finally kill them off!


www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/18/nolte-anti-vaxxers-hype-benign-transmission-numbers-as-proof-vax-doesnt-work/

Had to stop reading when I got to fascist agenda and the author did not seem to realize it applied to Trump conservatives more than anyone else in American politics. Trump set the conservative idiots on this path, not the left. You could choose to feel good about getting the vaccine because you love your children and the people around you. It really shouldn't be about anything more than that. Making it political is a choice, a bad one.

Trump wanted you to die for his "beautiful" economy. Your choice, your problem. But this is a problem of people who insist on seeing life through a right/left lens. Perhaps at another time you can explain to us why Trump tried to get the vaccine to happen before the election. Was he planning a yuge rightwing conspiracy to kill off all the conservatives?


ETA: I realize the person who wrote this is not on this board, so just consider this an anonymous note to whoever wrote it and whoever is silly enough to believe that.

[thyme4change]

Sept 21, 2021 16:15:32 GMT -5 @pinkcshmere said:

That was the title of a science fair project 14 yo Nathan Zohner did in 1997. He got 43 of 50 9th graders to vote in favor of banning a chemical also known as “water” by presenting facts about water using its chemical name, dihydrogen monoxide.

Reading about it, I suspect that today, in 2021, many adults would have come to the same conclusion the majority of the 9th graders did. I saw a post about this on FB, with the caption that this helps explains some of the things going on now. Frankly, the more I think about it, the scarier it is.

A link for more information about Zohner and his science fair project….. Link

I remember hearing someone making the argument, and they took it too far and I actually caught on, which is rare for me.

They started by saying normal bad things about chemical, and then they expanded it and said it was in every single food, but was also in yoga mats - can you believe we are eating yoga mats? And I was like "every single food?? It must be okay if it is in every single food."

[Tiny]

I bumped into Zohner's experiment a couple of weeks ago.

Not sure if it was in an article on why so many people believe some crazy stuff they see/hear about on social media/the News about getting the Covid19 vaccine. It might have been a NYtimes opinion piece.

Or maybe it was when I went down a rabbit hole trying to determine if my oddly tasting DT Coke was ok to drink (the cans had been in the heat in the office for 3 weeks - so even through the best by date was still 2 weeks into the future the artificial sweetener had started to take on that nasty old sock/lighter fluid/weirdly bitter taste. ) I determined it wouldn't kill me and that it wasn't so far gone as to be undrinkable - so I drank it. (and hey! I'm still here two weeks later!).

Oddly the artificial sweetener mis information had cross over to the Covid19 vaccine misinformation.



Which all leads back to my amazement when someone won't get vaccinated but probably will take all sorts of over the counter vitamins in astronomical amounts or "health aids" or "cleanses" or products to "magically" get rid of wrinkles or grow hair or whatever...
but get really concerned about a vaccination that might actually save their life. Maybe it was the needle/injection that put them off... but then there's botox shots and who knows what else. 

[jerseygirl]

Yes an ‘organic gluten free’ vaccine is needed!

[justme]

I'm pretty sure we could get a lot of people in an outrage about all the rocket fuel is in the atmosphere.

[Tennesseer]

Or commercial jet contrails are loaded with hormones which are responsible for the low birth rate in the U.S.