I just posted a question to see how people would answer. I made up some stuff like "Carbo-Lirium, Mono-Dioxi, Radicum-Fossil." http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjRKxLkWq19FCnMYZQwW8n7sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071106080436AAYTAUD
I received some stars, and some who answered the question received many thumbs up.
This prove that people will believe what they are told, not what is true. Dont you think?
2007-11-06 03:29:02 · 17 answers · asked by geeks_gadgets 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Very good.
Perhaps you have hit on a key trait why people follow religion.
2007-11-06 03:48:12 · answer #1 · answered by skeptic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Clever troll! :)
2 guys at the end picked up on the made up words, give them credit.
But the way you worded the question was not to ask about science, but to ask about religion.
You got religious answers, all pretty predictable given the question, and exactly what you would have gotten had you left the made up terms out of it.
I don't see what your point or logic here is though.
If I said "My great gramma has a chicken soup recipe that she used to make that required chickens that were raised indoors in her spare bedroom to be killed in a Kosher manner, but how can I make chicken soup in my kitchen today", the first part isn't really relevant to the answers I am going to get.
that is how your question was presented.
Just the same, you might be dancing around the principles discovers by Stanley Milgram - look up his experiments on wikipedia. Then look up all the details of the girl in the recent Kentucky McDonalds case for a real life example of people believing what they are told.
Anyway, it has to do with the perception of authority among other things.
I think you have a fun idea but the experiment was poorly designed to come to the conclusion you did.
2007-11-06 11:40:43 · answer #2 · answered by Barry C 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
hahaha. Very good experiment! It is true, people beleive what they are told. People need to read the bible for themselves instead of believeing everything that comes out of a preachers mouth. If people read the bible, then they would learn that burning in hellfire is no where in the bible.
2007-11-06 11:39:07 · answer #3 · answered by david t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank God I avoided your earlier question because I could not find the meanings of your words in best of lexicons. Some intuition made me to skip it. Ha Ha Ha.I feel happy now.
2007-11-06 11:37:27 · answer #4 · answered by yogeshwargarg 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you told them it was true, and they believed you. Many of the people on this are students, used to believing, or at least accepting, what they are told.
2007-11-06 11:33:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no one corrected u. and it seemed like you knew what you were talking about.
Though I've noticed alot of people will answer questions they have no idea about, and pretend to be an expert.
If you tell me the world doesn't actualy spin, I might be inclined to believe you.
2007-11-06 11:44:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I saw the question and just shook my head. I assumed it was some new creationism terminology.
2007-11-06 11:42:44 · answer #7 · answered by Demetri w 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lol, mono dioxi, one two oxygen.
2007-11-06 11:32:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
honestly i didnt read your question before answering, im just tired of people saying i have to choose between science and religion!
2007-11-06 11:35:46 · answer #9 · answered by nacsez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MmmHmm
2007-11-06 11:36:33 · answer #10 · answered by amber_lanae28 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋