Posted on 06/20/2017 8:37:48 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Generations of us who learned that rhyme never dreamed that brown bovines had a direct connection to chocolate milk. "Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy," Caitlin Dewey reported in The Washington Post. "If you do the math, that works out to 16.4 million misinformed, milk-drinking people."
"The equivalent of the population of Pennsylvania (and then some!) does not know that chocolate milk is milk, cocoa and sugar." Could the confusion stem from their education? Dewey offers this tantalizing tidbit. "When one team of researchers interviewed fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders at an urban California high school, they found that more than half of them didn't know pickles were cucumbers, or that onions and lettuce were plants," she writes. "Four in 10 didn't know that hamburgers came from cows."
"And 3 in 10 didn't know that cheese is made from milk." Let's hope they figure it out before they get their college degrees. If they don't get a handle on it, they could always major in gender studies. Perhaps we'll meet some of them at the Modern Language Association.
I bet this researchers are being pwned by scores of people answering a stupid question with a stupid answer.
I can remember the kindergarten teacher calling in my mother because I just wasn’t getting all excited about reading about cute little farm animals and drawing farm stuff. Mom informed her we lived on a farm.
Note to self....put a hard boiled turkey egg in my lunch box.
And many not aware that goat meat is edible.
That’s my thought exactly.
I take online surveys for small prizes like Amazon gift cards — I’ve gotten some nice books that way.
But if you do this a few times a week, you get really cynical about polls and surveys in general. This extends way beyond what we already know about how biased political polls have become.
It seems that marketing pollsters have become incapable of building surveys that consist of a relative handful of appropriate and direct questions.
For example, I’ve taken a fair number of surveys about the financial institutions I use.
Typically, they have maybe 100 questions, each asking you to rate on a 1-10 scale such inane assertions as:
“[Bank] is fun”
“[Bank] is cool”
“I feel like I’ve earned the privilege of using [Bank]”
I could go on, but you get the general drift here. Some of the questions are fair — “[Bank] provides good customer service” — but overall, you get the impression that the pollsters are padding their product.
Maybe they get paid more for longer surveys — despite the fact that people will only pay attention for so long.
What a screwed-up mess. But I like the Amazon gift cards.
Pull the plug parents
No kidding. Take that bunch of loony tunes out of any statistical analysis and suddenly things don’t look nearly so bad.
And operate complicated electronic devices.
It would be hilarious to see where these fools think an old school Noo Yawk style chocolate egg cgream comes from. :)
“brown cows” would be my answer on any survey that offered that choice for the origin of chocolate milk.
I suspect others of doing the same.
6% of all American adults have a sense of humor on display when asked inane questions by a surveyer.
I KNOW, I KNOW; From the chocolate EASTER BUNNY. :)
LOL!
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