79% of Americans believe in some imaginary sky friends.

If you bring religion into the mix, even intelligent people are more likely to believe ridiculous claims. Being indoctrinated from birth is a powerful thing.

I disagree. There is no shortage of information. It's just mixed in with a shitload of misinformation, disinformation, and bullshit, garnished with slop and irrelevant garbage to also have to sift through to find anything useful.

And we stopped teaching kids how to differentiate because we thought it would be more important to prove through standardized tests that kids are meeting curricula, but that means we all memorized "the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" without actually breaking down what that phrase means.

We are in an over-rich information culture, we just have some really undescerning people who don't know truth from lies when being bombarded with it all.

70-85: This range is considered low average, or borderline intellectual functioning. Many people in this range are able to work, have social lives, and function independently, but may need some academic accommodations or support.

That range sounds about right.

About 22% of all Americans (not just voters) voted for him in 2024. So there's still millions of people who voted for him and believed he knew.

Still, the fact that it is non-zero is rather disgusting.

not how statistics work. percentages apply to sample of any size.

imagine there were 100 voters in the last elections. trump got 50 of them and if he got all of this 15% group (unlikely, but it actually plays in his favor in this argument). that means 50*0,70=35 of his voters believed he was guilty and voted for him anyway.

if someone asks why 0,70 and not 0,85 (1-0,15) it is based on assumption that the we believe he is not guilty group was largely voting for him, which is not unreasonable assumption. if some of them were actually voting for democrats, that makes the number of people voting for him despite believing he is a child rapist even higher.

(this argument indeed ignores shift of this number in time).

Even then, pretty sure he didn’t get 50% of the votes.

even though it is irrelevant in this argument - he got 49.80% of votes and he won popular vote with 77,3M against harris's 75M votes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election#Results