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Originally Posted by Matata
Yes, but....8% are completely confident they exist, while only 13% are completely confident they don't exist, everyone else is in the middle somewhere:
http://gawker.com/5841584/a-majority...tence-of-elves
The prevailing attitude seems to be "Now this god-business is right out, but I'm not ready to make a call on elves, yet." Is that anywhere close to accurate?
(Not hating here, Iceland produced Bjork and Sigur Ros, therefor I will love Iceland until the day I die). |
Sigh. As with the horrific misreporting of Iceland after the 2008 crash, the foreign press likes to report nonsense and state it as fact.
The 8% is generous, amongst Icelander's anyone who genuinely believes in little people is considered weird, eccentric..
But a study done jokingly in 2001 by a University student, where they asked in roughly translated terms "can you totally discount the possibility of little people?" ... Logical Icelanders responded overwhelmingly well no, we can't, same as we can't totally discount the possibility of Unicorns.
But that is all it takes, as with the after crash memes about Iceland, imprisoning bankers, taking over banks, having the best recovery EVER....
The truth is FAR from the reality.
Its an indictment of modern news, as I moved to Iceland and never thought major outlets could report something that was utterly untrue, yet, as I've lived here the last 5 years I've seen story after story about Iceland being reported on respected UK, EU and North American sites propagating utter bull#### about Iceland.
Locally we even started mocking this with stuff like:
As a skeptic, this experience has been eye opening. I've had to fight against major liberal FB groups like US Uncut and other major FB pages that promote a liberal ideal, and even after I provide the evidence, they refuse to take down the nonsense memes, and even in the case of Being Liberal, they banned me outright....
