reply to post by SkepticOverlord
Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
There are only two conspiracy theories listed in these two responses, and each response asks if this is the only probable conspiracy.
The agree, and strongly agree for these two responses shouldn't add up to over 100%, but they do, right?
63% agree or strongly agree the only conspiracy was, they let it happen
49% agree or strongly agree the only conspiracy was, they made it happen
24% agree or strongly agree there was no conspiracy
133% is the sum of the above percentages, but it shouldn't be over 100%, right?
I'm assuming this is not an error of ATS adding the numbers but rather of some poll takers agreeing with both, when the wording of the questions
should have excluded that. A better designed poll might have prevented the total from exceeding 100%, since it should have been below 100% for the sum
of those three questions.
The problem is actually worse because there are even more conspiracy theories that weren't even on the survey, so taking that into consideration, the
total of just those two should have been significantly under 76% (after subtracting out the 24% who agree or strongly agree there was no conspiracy),
not 112%, right?
ATS did a nice job providing the member versus guest composition this time, that was interesting information.