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UFO belief survey mostly proves media eats its own tail

A commissioned poll says news coverage boosts alien belief, but the survey itself is more media fodder than data.

Talker Research asked 2,000 Americans if news coverage has upped their belief in UFOs and aliens. Most said yes, especially the under-40s. That’s the whole finding.

No control group. No baseline check on what people believed before the headlines started. Self-report causal reasoning is not evidence of causation; it is evidence that people like blaming the telly.

Here’s the awkward bit. Talker Research writes sponsored surveys for marketing clients, not peer-reviewed research shops. A survey about media coverage got covered by media, then cited as proof media coverage matters. Grade: circular, low-weight, worth a paragraph and nothing more.

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