Posted on 10/19/2015 7:12:01 AM PDT by JoeProBono
ORANGE, Calif., - A new study by a California university shows Americans have a much greater fear of the government, technology and pandemics than ghosts or zombies.
Nearly 60 percent of Americans are afraid or very afraid of government corruption, the Chapman University Survey of American Fears found. At 58 percent, the subject topped a list of 88 items people were asked about, with personal appearance -- specifically what people thought of how you were dressed -- being last at 4.2 percent.
Researchers quizzed 1,541 people across the United States about all their various fears and anxieties and nearly half are afraid of cyber terrorism or having their online information tracked by the government and corporations. Also included the top 10 were terrorist attacks, biological warfare, identity theft, economic collapse, running out of money in the future and credit card fraud.
Researchers broke down fears into different fear domains with those created by man outweighing those created by nature.
The highest rated of natural disasters was not hurricanes, earthquakes or tornadoes but pandemics at 34.3 percent. People's personal anxieties peaked with fear of reptiles at 33 percent. Global warming topped American's fear of the environment at 30.7 and death was still the thing most people feared in daily life at 16.8 percent.
Researchers did ask people about other, more literary fears like ghosts, which 9.7 percent of people said they feared, and zombies at 8.5 percent.
Other various items on the survey included war at 35.8 percent, heights at 27.4 percent, insects at 25.5 percent, loneliness at 22 percent, the dark at 9.3 percent and clowns at 6.8 percent.
,,,,,, and government fears the 2nd Amendent
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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I expected zombies to be higher than 8.5. /s
I fear the EPA will dump more toxic waste.
I fear that my fellow citizens will not have the balls to do what needs to be done when the fed get us to the breaking point.
That is one terrible infographic. A bulleted list would have been better.
Fear is pointless in the face of the knowledge that they most certainly won’t have the balls to do anything whatsoever when the SHTF. They will be useful only as moving target practice but not worth the expenditure of the ammo.
What is there to do then?
35.7% of those surveyed answered that they were either “Afraid” or “Very Afraid” of Obamacare.
Wasn’t there a survey not long ago that showed Whites feared Government while Blacks feared ghosts and spooks?
That’s a question we must all answer individually. I know my answer. But I won’t be broadcasting my intentions.
Blacks in the U.S. have a significantly lower level of confidence in the police as an institution than do whites.
Combined 2011-2014 data measuring Americans’ confidence in the police shows that 59% of whites have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the police, compared with 37% of blacks.
They are constantly talking about homophobia and Islamophobia in the MSM...did anyone inquire how “afraid” we REALLY are about muslims and gays? /s
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