| Subject: Re: Intelligence and UFOs |
| From: usenet@ulag.net (Avi Norowitz) |
| Date: 07/08/2003, 15:52 |
| Newsgroups: sci.skeptic,alt.ufo.reports,alt.alien.visitors,alt.alien.research,alt.paranet.ufo,alt.paranet.abduct |
Thé Whølé?lå??ér ÇøñtiñÜÜm <nospam@newsranger.com> wrote in message news:<Yl7Xa.14131$cJ5.1175@www.newsranger.com>...
What good are debunkers now
that everybody accepts the alien presence?
First, 48% of the American population believe that UFOs have visited
earth. This is far from "everybody" [1].
Second, this is an appeal to popularity, which is a logical fallacy
[2].
And of course the title of this post
proves that the higher the education,
the more readily these people understand
the good science behind the data.
In fact, if you reread what I wrote, you will find that the findings
are ambiguous. For example, the NSF survey found that higher education
is correlated with disbelief in UFOs being extraterrestrial [3].
[1] http://www.scifi.com/ufo/roper/05.html
[2] http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/pop.htm
[3] http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind02/append/c7/at07-56.pdf