Survey: One in Five English People Think Coronavirus Is a Jewish Conspiracy
25th May 2020
A new survey done by a group of researchers at the University of Oxford found that one in five English people think coronavirus was constructed by Jews to topple the economy for financial benefits.
I think this is more likely handwaving by this ‘group of researchers’ in a bid to attain notoriety than any pernicious tendency in British public opinion. A look at their methodology (which few writers of headlines bother to do) reveals why.
The study surveyed 2,500 adults that were “representative of the English population according to age, gender, region and income, on their attitudes toward the government narrative on coronavirus and related conspiracy theories between May 4 and May 11,” according to the Jerusalem Post.
I don’t believe that such a small sample size is in any meaningful respect ‘representative of the English population’ any more than I believe the predictive power of climate change models. That the Jerusalem Post might have a vested interest in raising the alarm about anti-Jewish sentiment rather detracts from its persuasiveness as well.