Forgetting history means you really forget it?
 

Instead of forgetting the past and being doomed to repeat it.....
I found this story in the news fascinating. Of course, they did only poll 3000 people.

The thing you also need to remember about polls is people like me. Often times, I give completely ridiculous answers like "Churchill was a myth and Sherlock Holmes was real."

I do hope you're kidding.

Last time I was polled, I said the Pacific ocean was located in Denmark.




(Yes, CP. There are a lot of us out there....)

Hehehe... Kevy, that would be very much like you! :)

I'm not entirely surprised, though. The percentages are rather small, and I have such a dim view of the general public, so I expected more. Many of the real-life characters were larger than life, so it's almost understandable that some would confuse it for fact or fiction. The only "majority" that found fiction to be fact (or vice versa) was over Sherlock Holmes. I know that when I was younger, I thought he might have been a real person, whose stories were embellished into a work of fiction.

Time has a way of doing that. To most people these days I suspect that Aunt Jemima and Walt Disney are equally real historical/marketing creatures/creations.

Depends on the poll and my mood. Yes, I have done this (though it has been a while).

Lying on polls? Blech on all of you sinners. :p

I don't lie on polls, I just never participate in them.

Therefore it is a mathematical given that the overall responses will be stupider looking than if I were involved.

I apologize for skewing things.

Someone has to play the part of Standard deviation...