![]() ![]() We got a little more than 1,200 answers to the survey, and half of that was conducted amongst students in our university, which has three big faculties-engineering, business, and social sciences. It is a convenient sample, but it’s a very particular kind. The sample we took is not representative of Spain. We were concerned that these kinds of beliefs are much more widespread than people thought, so we decided to test that here. We found that 17 percent said they were not sure the Earth was round. For example, once you take into account the Dunning-Kruger effect, the explanatory effect of religiosity kind of goes away: It’s not necessarily religious people that believe in a flat Earth. Other things that have been previously thought to produce this effect do not necessarily explain the phenomena of people believing the Earth is flat. This is called the Dunning-Kruger effect. It is a very bizarre circumstance where the less you know about a certain subject, the more overconfident you are in your abilities in that subject. These Flat Earthers have a high degree of overconfidence in their knowledge of science, which is pretty curious, because in our new study, we found they have the lowest actual knowledge of science in our sample. Our guess is there are certain kinds of people who have a need to feel special. ![]() One question for José Arroyo-Barrigüete, an economist at Comillas Pontifical University in Spain, where he is a professor of quantitative methods. ![]()
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