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Atlantis Poll Result: 90% Consider it Factual or Partly Factual, and 49% Place it in the Atlantic Ocean
Of the poll respondents, 54% consider the Atlantis tale to be mostly factual, while only 10% consider it mostly fictional. The remaining 36% answered that it was "a bit of each." Furthermore, about one half believes that Atlantis was located in the Atlantic Ocean.
(PRWEB) January 11, 2005 -- Of the poll respondents, 54% consider the Atlantis tale to be mostly factual, while only 10% consider it mostly fictional. The remaining 36% answered that it was "a bit of each." Furthermore, about one half believes that Atlantis was located in the Atlantic Ocean.
The poll results contradict the claim sometimes heard that Thera (Santorini) is the most accepted hypothesis for the lost island. Only one in seven believe it was located in the Mediterranean Sea, and that includes those who believe in a location deep off Cyprus.
The online poll at AtlantisInIreland.com suggests that a large percentage of people are open-minded to the result that Ireland was the location of Atlantis. This result begs the question how it was possible for Plato to know the geography of Ireland. Hardly surprising, that is the new poll question on the website.
The idea that Atlantis was modeled on Ireland is presented, tested, and found statistically significant to 99.98 percent in the book "Atlantis from a Geographer's Perspective: Mapping the Fairy Land" by Ulf Erlingsson, PhD (Nov 2004, www.lindorm.com). The book has a foreword by prof em Wibjörn Karlén, Stockholm University, the editor of the prestigious scientific journal Geografiska Annaler.
"Atlantis from a Geographer's Perspective" is based on science, which sets it apart from the vast majority of books on Atlantis. This book is perhaps alone in not only suggesting a geographic location, but actually proving it using hard science, the latter attested to by professor Karlén.
Remarkably, the Antarctic hypothesis got one in twelve votes in the poll, even though it flagrantly violates well known scientific facts - just like the Cyprus hypothesis. The Antarctic can impossibly have been ice free, let alone warm, 12,000 years ago. The poll result is a testimony to the power of public relations. For the casual news consumer, the subjective trustworthiness of a message is more important than the objective truthfulness of it. In science it is of course the other way around.
Survey details
The respondents were 196 web surfers who clicked on a link to read about Atlantis. The poll was conducted online, June - December of 2004. Most of the responses were given in August - September, before Atlantis was claimed to have been found off Cyprus (which was later debunked by marine geologists), but after the Ireland connection had hit the media. Questions, answers and full results are available at http://atlantisinireland.com/index.html#survey
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