Half of them declared they believe in God and the same proportion had taken care of someone nearing the end of life.
The Generation Rent report found that 40% of people surveyed did not know whether government initiatives such as NewBuy and Help to Buy will help to ease the struggle to get on the property ladder, while 30% thought the schemes wouldn't work – but the same proportion believed they would.
The same proportion believe that anyone refusing a job offer should be denied benefits (chart 8).
Four in 10 Americans held the misconception that illegal immigrants would receive financial assistance to attain health insurance, and the same proportion said they believed the government would set up death panels.
In fact 117 (92.9%) believed pharmacists were qualified to provide counseling (the same proportion assigned to physicians).
About the same proportion of our country believes in a patriarchal god as Icelanders believe in elves (it's true, even engineers).
A 2014 Quinnipiac poll found that just one in six Republican voters supported banning abortion in all cases, the same proportion of Republicans who believe abortion should be legal in all cases.
However, the same proportion of respondents (44%) said they believed studios had a problem with minorities, and 30% said that Hollywood's output does not accurately represent US diversity.
Of those who still think the strikes are unjustified, just under three-quarters (74%) agreed with the statement that "Other workers have to accept unsociable working hours"; 69% believed that "weekend and weekday NHS coverage should be the same", the same proportion as thought that "doctors choose to do a job with unsocial hours anyway".
In addition, a 2013 CBS News poll conducted in early October, 2013 found that over a third of the country believed that the government could operate effectively in a shutdown, about the same proportion who said so in January of 1996.
