rkstocke5609
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Well the Flat Earthers just held a conference & a whopping 400 people showed. I think more people think the Avengers are real
They aren’t?
Well the Flat Earthers just held a conference & a whopping 400 people showed. I think more people think the Avengers are real
So, in the past week, I have heard of two recent polls about Millenials, and here is what they concluded:
Poll #1: 1/3 of Millenials believe the earth is flat
Poll #2: 41% of Millenials have NO idea that 6 Million Jews were killed during the Holocaust
Discuss...
Personally, I just can't come to grips with this actually being true. I might be in serious denial about how little people are learning in school nowadays, but also, how is Poll #1 even REMOTELY plausible????
I am completely convinced the flat earth people are just a large group of trolls doing it for the reaction.
As a millennial myself (1982-2000), I have a pretty difficult time believing the validity of these polls.
Oh it doesn't matter to me. There were a couple age ranges, I picked what I thought was the median.I think a lot of people like to give horrible answers on polls, so I really don't think these are true.
I know this is off topic and can cause a debate, however, millennial dates are 1982-1995 (6). Basically, the argument is if you can remember 9/11 in the 199? then you are a millennial. Most kids born 1996 -2000 don't remember what happen on that date. 1996 is considered a gray area and someone born in that year can be considered millennial or generation Z. This is a hot topic in our house because we have teenagers and their friends hate to be lumped into the millennial generation.
My question is who are the crazy writers of these polls and do they actually poll anyone or just make up garbage.
Those I know today who are 30 and younger are bright, astute, know much more about this world than I ever dreamed of, have many more friends of all backgrounds nationalities Etc and are so accepting of other people. I can assure you that schools are still teaching the Earth is round and that the Holocaust happened. Our high school takes a trip every other year to Germany to see the Holocaust monuments and museums.
And who are the gullible people that believe the polls are true?
I'd love to have an opportunity to discuss the moon with them. I'm thinking they likely believe the moon landing was faked, unless they simply think the description of the earth from space or the moon was faked for some reason. I'd also love to know if they think the moon is round or flat as well.
I think a lot of people like to give horrible answers on polls, so I really don't think these are true.
I know this is off topic and can cause a debate, however, millennial dates are 1982-1995 (6). Basically, the argument is if you can remember 9/11 in the 199? then you are a millennial. Most kids born 1996 -2000 don't remember what happen on that date. 1996 is considered a gray area and someone born in that year can be considered millennial or generation Z. This is a hot topic in our house because we have teenagers and their friends hate to be lumped into the millennial generation.
So, in the past week, I have heard of two recent polls about Millenials, and here is what they concluded:
Poll #1: 1/3 of Millenials believe the earth is flat
Poll #2: 41% of Millenials have NO idea that 6 Million Jews were killed during the Holocaust
Discuss...
Personally, I just can't come to grips with this actually being true. I might be in serious denial about how little people are learning in school nowadays, but also, how is Poll #1 even REMOTELY plausible????
Did you look into them? #2 appears legit: https://www.disboards.com/threads/recent-polls-about-millenials.3676521/page-2#post-59083648I would not give those polls and validity. I cannot imagine that this is true.
One can reflexively say this about ANY poll -- and none are perfect, but some are better than others. Poll #2 appears to be pretty legit from what I can tell. https://www.disboards.com/threads/recent-polls-about-millenials.3676521/page-2#post-59083648Without knowing info about who they polled (heck, even the term 'millennial' can mean different ages to different people), there's no real way of knowing how valid the polls are.
The poll re: the holocaust interviewed adults of varying ages. It is legitimate to break down polling by generation, especially if what you are examining is whether younger generations are forgetting critical historical facts and thus perhaps more likely to have them repeated.I really don't get why so many target the 'millenial' generation, or any other "us vs. them" type comments. We need to support each other not tear people down. Makes me sad.
Agreed that this is a growing concern.I don’t know if it’s a real poll. But, I think this type of thing does speak to what we were talking about on other threads of ppl doubting academia, research, experts, etc. I’m not saying all experts are always right, but I think all of this is a disturbing trend.
Re: #2, it's quite disturbing -- and pathetic -- if this poll is at all legit (which it appears to be to me, since http://schoenconsulting.com is respected, I believe):
WaPo article: "The study, conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, interviewed 1,350 American adults in February and recruited by telephone and an online non-probability sample." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...owledge/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.34b115e97f1f
- 22% of millennials in the poll said they haven’t heard of the Holocaust or are not sure whether they’ve heard of it — twice the percentage of U.S. adults as a whole who said the same.
- 66% of American millennials surveyed in a recent poll cannot identify what Auschwitz is
- 41% of millennials believe that two million Jews or less were killed during the Holocaust
- 49% of millennials cannot name one of the over 40,000 concentration camps and ghettos in Europe during the Holocaust
The study itself -- "Schoen Consulting conducted 1,350 interviews with American adults aged 18 and over between February 23 – 27, 2018. The margin of error is +/- 3%.": http://cc-69bd.kxcdn.com/wp-content...ge-Awareness-Study_Executive-Summary-2018.pdf