Re:Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl: A Mystery Few Seem Interes...
by zerocrates on Saturday August 19, 2023 @03:30AM
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It's just a terrible title. The question was "On April 26, 1986, there was an explosion at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl. How did you learn about this accident?"
Re:Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl: A Mystery Few Seem Interes...
by pmontra on Saturday August 19, 2023 @06:54AM
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If that was the question, how it comes that 33% answered one of
From documentary films
From social media and the Internet
From fictional films/ TV shows
From books
Already books, films, social media and the internet on the very first day of the accident? Fiction, maybe.
Re:Radiation Spikes at Chernobyl: A Mystery Few Seem Interes...
by zerocrates on Saturday August 19, 2023 @01:15PM
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The key here is that the question doesn't actually ask "how did you hear about it on the day of the accident," but "how did you hear about it"?
Just the title of the graphic says that, incorrectly. It's a poll that includes 18-year-olds done in 2019, it's clearly not intended to be only asking about the moment of the incident.
And specifically:
> Everyone knows about Chernobyl.
And everyone knows about Tienanmen, the difference in what they know is made by the country where they live.
Compare this poll from 2019 with the expected values from Western Europe where probably 100% learned it from the news, for many many days.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040923/how-russians-lea....
The poll is a bit strange though because despite asking how did they learn of the disaster "at its moment of occurrence" they list internet, social media, books and movies.
BTW, the Chernobyl TV series was not available on general TV in Russia AFAIK.