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re: space polls
ken murphy — (archived)

One can access the Gallup data if you sign up for a 30-day trial and tolerate the occasionl Gallup spam.

The report is rather interesting. It is a very recent Jun 24-26, 2005 poll of 1,009 persons. While I won't reproduce their work here, the question is the same one they asked in July of 1999 and July of 1969.

Over that time period, support for setting aside money to support an attempt to land an astronaut on Mars has been relatively flat (39% in '69, 40% in '05), opposition has steadily increased (53% in '69, 58% in '05), while the "No opinion" chunk has dropped from 8% to 2%. Women are strongly opposed, by 68% opposed versus 28% in favor. Support is biased to those under 50.

This poll has 95% confidence of a max. error of +- 3%. (which means that all of the results above are pretty much within the margin of error of one another)

So on the face of it, it appears that people are more aware of the idea of a Mars mission (as indicated by the drop in "No opinion"), and as they become more aware, the opposition grows., especially amongst older folks and women.

Very interesting indeed.

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