42% of Americans Oppose Private Drone Ownership; 28% “Not Sure”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/05/us-usa-drones-poll-idUSKBN0L91EE20150205

by blackbagboys • 11 years ago

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keenar• 11 years ago

I wonder what percentage of the american population really knows what drones are?

Reminds me of opinions of cars at the turn of the century (1900): "To the average city dweller, the idea of a city oriented around transportation in cars, and especially privately owned cars carrying one or a few people, would have been incomprehensible. Indeed, the modern idea of a street as an artery, existing primarily to convey vehicles, would have been foreign, says Christopher W. Wells, author of Car Country: An Environmental History" (http://nautil.us/issue/7/waste/did-cars-save-our-cities-from...)

mtmail• 11 years ago

What if they asked the same questions but used "electric toy helicopter" instead?

_rpd• 11 years ago

Yes, respondents are almost certainly picturing military strike drones and thinking that people want them for home defense.

gus_massa• 11 years ago

It was an online poll, not a real poll with a uniform sample of the population. The "poll" was attached to a new of a moron that crashed a drone into the White House. I'm really surprised that only a 42% of the votes were against private drones.

If we can't have a serious poll, I'd like to see the result if they repeat the same "poll" but attached to this news:

* "Mom with broken leg found 3 years old kid lost in the forest using drone"

* "RC airport cafeterias drop the price to 1/3 using drones to distribute the burritos"

blackbagboys• 11 years ago

I think you're misreading the article. The poll wasn't "attached" to any news story, a portion of the polling was conducted after the story broke.

It is also completely possible to carry out representative polling over the internet; this poll executed by Reuters and a prominent market research firm, it wasn't a sidebar in a CNN Online post.

42% of Americans Oppose Private Drone Ownership; 28% “Not Sure”

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