In the 2017 Chapman Survey of American Fears the most
common fear was Corrupt Federal Government Officials. This year’s survey also
included eight questions about the government hiding things.
The general question was: “The government is concealing
what it knows about...” and eight specific questions were about:
Alien encounters (q28a)
The 9/11 attacks (q28b)
The South Dakota crash (q28c)
Global warming (q28d)
The JFK assassination (q28e)
The moon landing (q28f)
Collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian
officials (q28g)
The Illuminati/New World Order (q28h)
For each question people were asked how they felt about
that event. That is, whether they:
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Agree
Strongly Agree
There also was a Blank category of Refused for those who
did not reply to a question. Results for the sum of Agree and Strongly Agree were:
56.1% Global warming
55.7% The JFK assassination
55.0% Collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian
officials
46.7% The 9/11 attacks
39.9% Alien encounters
39.0% The Illuminati/New World Order
27.7% The South Dakota crash
25.2% The moon landing
In the 2016 survey the very similar general question
was: “The government is concealing what they know about...” and ten specific
questions were about:
Alien encounters Q32_1
The 9/11 attacks Q32_2
The North Dakota crash Q32_3
Obama’s birth certificate Q32_4
Global warming Q32_5
The JFK assassination Q32_6
The moon landing Q32_7
The death of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia Q32_8
The origins of the AIDS virus Q32_9
Plans for a one world government Q32_10
I blogged about it on October 15, 2016 in a post titled What
is the government concealing from us? Paranoia in the 2016 Chapman Survey of
American Fears.
Results for the sum of Agree and Strongly Agree were:
52.4% The 9/11 attacks Q32_2
47.9% The JFK assassination Q32_6
40.8 Alien encounters Q32_1
40.3% Global warming Q32_5
31.5% Plans for a one world government Q32_10
30.6% The North Dakota crash Q32_3
28.9% Obama’s birth certificate Q32_4
28.8% The origins of the AIDS virus Q32_9
26.7% The death of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia Q32_8
23.2% The moon landing Q32_7
From 2016 to 2017 the sum for global warming went up by 15.8%, and that for the JFK
assassination by 7.8%. But the sum for the 9/11 attacks went down by 5.7%. The South
and North Dakota crashes were meant to be made-up events, but their vague
descriptions didn’t work and about 3 of 10 folks thought they referred to real
events.
Very curiously Chapman University also swept the results
for their 2017 survey under the rug. The Acrobat .pdf file linked to under Methodology
Report shrank from 99 pages to 31 pages. The bottom line on the second page which said that Weighted Data Frequencies would be found on page 31 was erased.
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