1 In 5 Americans Think Blu-Ray Is A Sea Creature: Study

[HDTV1080P]

1 In 5 Americans Think Blu-Ray Is A Sea Creature: Study

[Badas]

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What a great study.

Thanks for the laugh.

[FRAK]

Penicillin should clear up that HTML.

[donzo29]

Originally Posted by FRAK

Penicillin should clear up that HTML.

I heard he caught it while visiting the USB.

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by donzo29

I heard he caught it while visiting the USB.

Amoxicillin might be a better choice.

[ZoetMB]

Something like 35% of Americans can't name the Vice-President, so thinking Blu-ray is a sea-creature is no big deal, IMO.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by ZoetMB

Something like 35% of Americans can't name the Vice-President, so thinking Blu-ray is a sea-creature is no big deal, IMO.

Jaywalk: Year In Review - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - YouTube

And from one of our American graduates….”I don’t know the exact address” - http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/...walking/n45744

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by HDTV1080P

1 In 5 Americans Think Blu-Ray Is A Sea Creature: Study

As of this moment in the ‘Display Theory and Discussion’ Forum on this thread specifically - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=234540
~ 1 in 4 people believe that sitting too close to a video display screen causes irreversible ocular pathology or deficiency.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

As of this moment in the ‘Display Theory and Discussion’ Forum on this thread specifically - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=234540
~ 1 in 4 people believe that sitting too close to a video display screen causes irreversible ocular pathology or deficiency.

Goodness knows what they think Redray is then!

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Goodness knows what they think Redray is then!

I wonder how many people on other forums (e.g. Audio Video Speculation Forum, etc.) known not to be particularly Blu-ray friendly during the format war, still, to this day, believe that HD DVD was the technologically superior format.

[mrr1]

Something like half of Americans also think that the Earth is only 6000 years old, women were made from ribs, snakes can talk, an old man named Noah actually fit every single species on Earth in his homemade boat, and that biological evolution is something that we just invented as another excuse to remove god from schools.

[Donat96]

How was this "study" conducted? If it was just an online survey, then it was most likely skewed by people who chose a dumb answer because it was funny. That does happen.

Lies on the Internet - YouTube

[The Great Owl]

During the 1990s, I worked at a community health department during my first three years out of college. Needless to say, I was initially worried when I heard so many people talking about how they got "DVDs."

[honeylatte]

must be ages 60+ and 10-

[img eL]

HD DVD was the best name for people to understand high definition Disc's concept. Everyone knows what a DVD is. Blu ray takes more time for people to understand

[Gaius Marius]

How big of an aquarium does one need to keep a Blu Ray in their house? Will it sting me?

[chip75]

Originally Posted by Gaius Marius

How big of an aquarium does one need to keep a Blu Ray in their house? Will it sting me?

It will sting your wallet quite badly ...

[Gaius Marius]

Originally Posted by chip75

It will sting your wallet quite badly ...

That it will

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Gaius Marius

How big of an aquarium does one need to keep a Blu Ray in their house? Will it sting me?

BIG.

They will outgrow most home aquariums and they do have venomous tail spines, notice the two white things at the end of the tail….http://www.elasmodiver.com/blue_spotted_stingray.htm

[ZoetMB]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Jaywalk: Year In Review - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - YouTube

And from one of our American graduates….”I don’t know the exact address” - http://www.nbc.com/the-tonight-show/...walking/n45744

While very, very scary, I'm holding out hope, perhaps extremely naively, that lots of people actually got the answers correct, but since those aren't funny, they never showed them.

The especially scary part is that I bet most of these people think of themselves as intelligent. The segments recorded at college graduations were astonishing - it seemed to me that if I were the Dean or Provost at such an institution, I would be so shocked that I would tear the place down and start over. I remember one interview with a woman in cap and gown who said she was an astronomy major but she didn't know how many moons the earth had. And yet she graduated.

This is why people can't get jobs - because they're barely literate (except when it comes to Miley Cyrus and the like) and they bring nothing to the table. There are plenty of jobs for highly skilled people.

I always wonder whether these people vote. Frankly, I wish they wouldn't bother.