Rannsóknir sýna að 38% fólks hefur ekki rétt á skoðunum sínum

Stundum eru "fréttir" the Onion djöfulli góðar:

Study: 38 Percent Of People Not Actually Entitled To Their Opinion

CHICAGO—In a surprising refutation of the conventional wisdom on opinion entitlement, a study conducted by the University of Chicago's School for Behavioral Science concluded that more than one-third of the U.S. population is neither entitled nor qualified to have opinions.

"On topics from evolution to the environment to gay marriage to immigration reform, we found that many of the opinions expressed were so off-base and ill-informed that they actually hurt society by being voiced," said chief researcher Professor Mark Fultz, who based the findings on hundreds of telephone, office, and dinner-party conversations compiled over a three-year period. "While people have long asserted that it takes all kinds, our research shows that American society currently has a drastic oversupply of the kinds who don't have any good or worthwhile thoughts whatsoever. We could actually do just fine without them."

In 2002, Fultz's team shook the academic world by conclusively proving the existence of both bad ideas during brainstorming and dumb questions during question-and-answer sessions.

Þetta hef ég alltaf sagt!

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[FreedomFries, 25.5.2007 kl. 00:44]

Þetta hlutfall er sennilega nokkuð nærri lagi - 3 af 10 forsetaframbjóðendum repúblíkana segjast ekki "trúa á þróunarkenninguna" og um 1/3 Bandarísku þjóðarinnar heldur ennþá, af einhverjum óskiljanlegum ástæðum, að Bush hafi staðið sig með prýði í embætti.

Og þá eru ótaldir allskonar jólasveinar á vinstrivængnum. - Kannski er hlutfallið því hærra en 38%... ;)

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