{"id":2829,"date":"2014-09-08T17:11:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T21:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=2829"},"modified":"2014-09-09T08:01:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T12:01:44","slug":"where-are-the-polls-about-belief-in-the-paranormal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/?p=2829","title":{"rendered":"Where are the polls about belief in the paranormal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are there no new polls about people&#8217;s beliefs in the paranormal?  I was looking at this 2009 Pew Research Poll titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2009\/12\/09\/many-americans-mix-multiple-faiths\/#4\">Ghosts, Fortunetellers, and Communicating With the Dead<\/a>, and I realized this was the last year I know of for polls of this kind.  There was also a Harris Poll that year\u2014in it 42% of the respondents said that they believed in ghosts.\u00a0\u00a071% said they believed the soul survived death.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, Pew has one which looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2014\/05\/07\/chapter-8-the-spirit-world\/\">the spiritual beliefs of Hispanics<\/a>, which include some topics that might be considered paranormal.  For instance, 42% believe it is possible to communicate with spiritual beings or saints.  There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/2012\/07\/19\/asian-americans-a-mosaic-of-faiths-religious-beliefs\/\">a similar chapter<\/a> about the beliefs of Asians. 41% believe in ancestral spirits.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it&#8217;s certainly time for an updated poll of people&#8217;s beliefs and attitudes towards subjects like ghosts, ESP, and reincarnation.<\/p>\n<p>A 1956 picture J. B. Rhine, the original director of the former Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke University.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rhine1956.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rhine1956.jpg\" alt=\"J. B. Rhine, Parapsychology Laboratory of Duke University\" width=\"524\" height=\"394\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rhine1956.jpg 524w, https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Rhine1956-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are there no new polls about people&#8217;s beliefs in the paranormal? I was looking at this 2009 Pew Research Poll titled Ghosts, Fortunetellers, and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6u-JD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2829"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2829\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/unbelievable\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}