If anything, it's bound to do the opposite. Given the mess that is UK politics and the sentiments surrounding Brexit, I'd say, to quote one Nigel Farage:
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Five per cent of UK adults do not believe the Holocaust took place and one in 12 believes its been exaggerated
- Thread starter Garfield
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While 95% sounds good, if there are 5 people in every group of 100 that denies the holocaust, that's way too many.
https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.or...m-in-contemporary-great-britain-a-new-report/
Other religions/far-left/far-right
Report here - https://www.jpr.org.uk/documents/JPR.2017.Antisemitism_in_contemporary_Great_Britain.pdf
5,466 sample size. Statement of 2.4% hardcore antisemite, 3% "softer" antisemite. Falls in line with the 5% figure here, given it's room for margin.
Imagine how shocked I am another poll, with even more people, comes in at around 5% when weighted towards severe antisemitism.
My mother doesn't believe in either blimps or pirates. Get you head around that cause I fucking can't. Worlds full of idiots
I guess pirate fantasy has tricked her into thinking that's pirates and she struggles to believe they existed. She has no knowledge prior to 1940 because she is the average human "sheep" who wants to watch xfactor. fish and chips on a friday and is more concerned about her neighbours daughters promiscuity than any real news or history or education.
As for blimps man your guess is as good as mine. I showed her footage of the Hindenburg and she is convinced it was CGI. The world is full of the dumb.
She doesn't believe in the whole Golden Age of Piracy she is convinced it's fiction
Let's face it, at least 50% of the population probably think the British Empire was great when it was far worse than anything Hitler managed to accomplish.
The UK is full of scum.
The UK is full of scum.
Came here to say this.
I thinking seeing too many Nazis on the internet gave me the impression that there are way more of them.
I think that the percentage of idiots is probably little different to what it was 100 years ago. We're just all interconnected so much that we can see just how many crappy people there really are. Before that we were blissfully ignorant.
It doesn't help that the internet seems to be run by loud stupid assholes and the worst sort of people.
That definitely impacts how you see people and I wonder how many people adopt the sorts of horrible behaviors that generally get you a lot of attention online .
Maybe there have always been incredibly stupid people. Maybe they just stand out more now that most of us are smarter and we have the internet to communicate so quickly
Nah, it really isn't. There's a percentage of scumbags per poulation in every single country in this world, so let's not make silly, sweeping statements like this please.
Before people dunk on the UK a recent poll conducted in the US revealed that 44% of respondents didn't know what Auschwitz was. I think 5% is a low number, taking into account mental health issues and just plain lack of education on the subject.
I really don't find these survey results particularly disheartening, and Winny might well have a point - though it isn't the point she thinks it is about statistics or sample sizing. It is tied in with the Lizardman Constant: that whatever whacko nutjob question you stick in a poll it'll get about 4-5% support just because of noise.
For example, about 7% of Americans believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Really?
Because of this, that 5% represents an upper bound of holocaust deniers, but not reliably a lower bound - quoting from that Scott Alexander post I linked above:
The numbers bit is even less scary. Most people just aren't good with big numbers. A million is unimaginably big, two million is even more unimaginably big, and it doesn't really reflect anything that people either can't remember or can't independently calibrate. It would be interesting if there were a control question about, say, estimating the population of Scotland or something.
For example, about 7% of Americans believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Really?
Because of this, that 5% represents an upper bound of holocaust deniers, but not reliably a lower bound - quoting from that Scott Alexander post I linked above:
The numbers bit is even less scary. Most people just aren't good with big numbers. A million is unimaginably big, two million is even more unimaginably big, and it doesn't really reflect anything that people either can't remember or can't independently calibrate. It would be interesting if there were a control question about, say, estimating the population of Scotland or something.
"those who forget history are doomed to re-meme it"
-Muhammad Ghandi
i'm suddenly afraid to see the US numbers
-Muhammad Ghandi
i'm suddenly afraid to see the US numbers
The only thing that's being proven with each of your posts is that you know absolutely nothing about statistics.
On the topic at hand, I'm actually a little surprised a full 95% do believe it happened, such are the times we live in.
Edit - I don't really know enough about the subject to comment, but I tried to look at the source the BBC cites and it doesn't have specific detail.
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Fucking hell... One more brick to add to the tower of stupidity that will soon destroy the world...
The holocaust deniers are just fucking insane, how the hell do you deny something so well documented is beyond me.
People getting the numbers wrong i have less of a problem with, it's not something you think off every day and the gravity of the situation ultimately slips a little even if you don't intend to. I actually just did the same test on myself and overestimated the count, but within a reasonable amount.
People getting the numbers wrong i have less of a problem with, it's not something you think off every day and the gravity of the situation ultimately slips a little even if you don't intend to. I actually just did the same test on myself and overestimated the count, but within a reasonable amount.
See: the DC council guy walking out of the Holocaust museum. https://www.resetera.com/threads/d-...sits-holocaust-museum-but-leaves-early.37397/
I was talking about this the other day. When I was in school, 30 years ago, history was nothing but the Normans, Romans and Vikings. No WWI, no WW2 or history in other specific countries.
History lessons were absolute garbage but on the plus side, my 8 yo daughter is learning about significant times in our history such as MLK, Rosa Parks and Tudor times in the UK, which is already more than what I got.
History lessons were absolute garbage but on the plus side, my 8 yo daughter is learning about significant times in our history such as MLK, Rosa Parks and Tudor times in the UK, which is already more than what I got.