1289: People are complex, contradictory

There are a number of ways in which people can be represented as both complex and/or self-contradictory, sometimes silly.

7% of Americans believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows. 41% say humans and dinosaurs lived side-by-side. Picture a man on a saddle on a dinosaur.

25% of Americans think the Sun goes around the Earth. 11% of Americans believe HTML is a sexually transmitted disease.

2 % firmly say the Earth is flat (another 5 % are “not sure”). 4 % believe “lizard people” secretly run politics. Fewer than 1 % of self-identified U.S. atheists believe in “God as described in the Bible,” while 23 % believe in some higher power.

61 % of U.S. women say the label “feminist” describes them at least somewhat well. Nearly 4 in 10 women still reject the term even when feminism is defined for them.

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