I always have a really hard time believing this kind of stuff. It rarely tracks with my personal experience with people, and I've participated in enough shoddy polls and surveys to have an inherent distrust of anything that makes strong claims like this. It takes a strong understanding of statistical principles to construct studies in ways that don't skew data, and even more so to draw accurate conclusions from data.
I'd more willingly believe 6 out of 10 pollsters don't know what a p value is and 90% of think tanks refuse to sample more than 20 people in their 'studies'
That's not a great indicator really. There were two candidates, if you're voting as a rightwinger you're gonna vote for the rightwing party. And every single Trump supporter I've talked to about history knows what the Holocaust is.
Just that there wasn't a wide array of candidates whose votes hinged upon knowing what the Holocaust is; there was a choice between Red rapist and Blue rapist. So a large number of people who did vote likely voted along their party lines or the cultural political group they identify with (or against the group they identify not with), rather than because they strongly supported the specific candidate. We can't really draw strong, specific conclusions about the Holocaust knowledge of any candidates' voter base because other variables influencing the vote choice are orders of magnitude more influential on the outcome.
I always have a really hard time believing this kind of stuff. It rarely tracks with my personal experience with people, and I've participated in enough shoddy polls and surveys to have an inherent distrust of anything that makes strong claims like this. It takes a strong understanding of statistical principles to construct studies in ways that don't skew data, and even more so to draw accurate conclusions from data.
I'd more willingly believe 6 out of 10 pollsters don't know what a p value is and 90% of think tanks refuse to sample more than 20 people in their 'studies'
74 million Americans voted for Trump. I have no problem believing this.
That's not a great indicator really. There were two candidates, if you're voting as a rightwinger you're gonna vote for the rightwing party. And every single Trump supporter I've talked to about history knows what the Holocaust is.
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Just that there wasn't a wide array of candidates whose votes hinged upon knowing what the Holocaust is; there was a choice between Red rapist and Blue rapist. So a large number of people who did vote likely voted along their party lines or the cultural political group they identify with (or against the group they identify not with), rather than because they strongly supported the specific candidate. We can't really draw strong, specific conclusions about the Holocaust knowledge of any candidates' voter base because other variables influencing the vote choice are orders of magnitude more influential on the outcome.
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ah lol my bad, went right over my head
Especially when you're conducting stuff like this, I don't know how you weed out trolls