Do You Believe In Any Of The Following?

[naomi24]

A survey of 2,000 British adults was commissioned to mark the launch of the new TV series ‘Believe’. The poll asked respondents about their beliefs as well as superstitions that still hold sway in 2014, with the following results:

Top 10 Beliefs in Unexplained Phenomena:

1 - Ghosts (33%)
2 - Sixth sense (32%)
3 - UFOs (22%)
4 - Past lives (19%)
5 - Telepathy (18%)
6 - Psychic ability to predict the future (18%)
7 - Psychic healing (16%)
8 - Astrology (10%)
9 - Bermuda Triangle (9%)
10 - Demons (8%)

http://watch.uktv.co.uk/believe/article/do-you-believe/

[CJHorse]

I don't believe in any of them.

[Old_Geezer]

I believe some are more likely than others. Only probably really disbelieving of the last 3.

[woofgang]

well I would bind telepathy and sixth sense in together and call it the potential for two people to be linked in a way which is not currently understood. My late husband and I had that kind of link but it was a very intermittent thing.

[LazyGun]

I wonder how this poll would look if you performed the same survey in the US? Quite surprised at how low the %'s are, actually.

I believe in number 3*, but none of the others.

* In the sense that it is self-evidently true that there will be unidentified flying objects in the sky; I do not believe that the UFOs represent alien civilisations visiting the Earth.

[Ken4155]

Whilst i believe that there are life forms on other planets - very arrogant of us to believe we are the only ones - i don't believe they bother to invade our air space without landing and making some kind of contact. As for the rest? Not on your nelly!

[RATTER15]

UFOs, I think most likely.

Ghosts, I really dont think so and if they do exist I dont think they are visible or can communicate.

I think the rest or nonsense.

[andy-hughes]

3 is somewhat ambiguous.

As LazyGun says, it is feasible to believe in UFO's - plenty of evidence for them, but that does not automatically lead to a belief that they are populated by extra-terrestrial beings - that's another belief system entirely.

The rest, I don't believe, but always keep an open mind.

[lyall]

I don’t disbelieve in any of them; there is a lot of stuff yet to be understood out there. I believe in ghosts, I have lived in my house for 50 years and for as long as I can remember we have had a ghost walking past the kitchen window, we say hello when he passes, occasionally he looks but mostly he just walks past.

[RATTER15]

Only 33% believe in ghosts, that surprises me actually, I was expecting that to be a lot higher.

[ToraToraTora]

1. No,
2. potentially other senses will be defined but not the Bruce Willis type
3. Yes, but they are not from alien worlds and not entirely unidentified. Ie the observer may not know what it is but someone will.
4-10. No

with 9 the geographic feature exists but nothing unexplained or unexplainable has happenned there.

[jomifl]

If think No. 9 is the only one that could have some factual origins and can be explained by existing phenomena. Some Ufos can be explained by rare atmospheric phenomena such as ball lightning and/or plasma spheres, the rest is fairyland.

[ludwig]

The last 3 I'd definitely rule out.
(The bermuda triangle definitely exists, but I don't beleive there's any mystery about it.)

'ghosts' I think there's something in it, depending on what is meant by 'ghosts'.

The rest I think are very unlikely, but I couldn't rule them out.

I don't know what 'sixth sense' means.

[sandyRoe]

1-9 I discount. 10 is not so easily dismissed.

[Prudie]

I believe in 1 - 6 to some degree or another.

[Graham-W]

None of the above except 3. These will only remain "unidentified" until some explanation is found. This explanation will not involve little green men, but some more earthly phenomena.

[Tilly2]

I believe in the same as Prudie.

[Peter Pedant]

what happened to the Boogy man and also Freddie ?

[Tilly2]

Boogy Man?

[Peter Pedant]

yeah Tilly the Boogy man,
he hides under the bed a lot and dresses real scary and snatches children and eats them when the dog food runs out !

[mibn2cweus]

I tend not to believe things I do not understand, especially those things that contradict that which I am able to understand. I believe that belief is highly overrated, pools being no exception to the rule. Pools aren't much good for anything except perhaps for informing us of the diverse and arbitrary nature of peoples beliefs and the willingness of considerable numbers of people to be swayed by numbers that have no independent meaning. Pools say a lot more about the people who are influenced by them than about the reality they attempt to abrogate. Of far greater importance and much more informative than what a person happens to believe is why they believe it.