Beliefs Among Undergraduate Students
an interesting survey. it is of american students so there is the bias that entails. the survey questions are at the end of the article. i expect most here will have a slightly different response than those in the survey.
Some of the questions are odd. But I haven’t read the entire methodology, so maybe they were there for some reason I didn’t notice.
>>Some ancient civilizations were visited by extraterrestrials.<<
See, for this I need a “unknowable” answer. Because it is unknowable.
buffy said:
Some of the questions are odd. But I haven’t read the entire methodology, so maybe they were there for some reason I didn’t notice.
>>Some ancient civilizations were visited by extraterrestrials.<<
See, for this I need a “unknowable” answer. Because it is unknowable.
I agree that some of the questions were odd, but the point of them was to test the student’s grasp of science, not to find the right answers to the questions. Someone not thinking critically or scientifically might say with absolute confidence that the ANCIENTS KNEW because they’d been visited by aliens. Or Zarky, perhaps.
>>Someone not thinking critically or scientifically might say with absolute confidence that the ANCIENTS KNEW because they’d been visited by aliens. Or Zarky, perhaps.<<
But that is not what the question asked. The question asked if some ancient civilizations were visited by aliens. It doesn’t ask about ancient civilizations getting knowledge from aliens.
Perhaps this place has taught me too much pedantry.
has it ever occurred to you that whilst you might ridicule students for believeing in aliens nothing much has been mentioned about students believing in “god” or some other supreme being/s.
if you’ve ever read the manuscripts of religions most of it is half baked clap trap then theres the genocide that no one wants to admit – islam and judaism are mostly a manual for terrorist activities.
wookiemeister said:
has it ever occurred to you that whilst you might ridicule students for believeing in aliens nothing much has been mentioned about students believing in “god” or some other supreme being/s.
For low values of “nothing much”.
There’s a plethora of study on this stuff.
if you’ve ever read the manuscripts of religions most of it is half baked clap trap…
Really? Wow!