New 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll Suggests 40% Of Americans Believe In Possibility Of Bigfoot

According to the March 2012 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll, 40% of Americans believe it's that Bigfoot exists, and 33% of them are people with college degrees.

Read below from Vanity Fair:

Call him whatever you like—Sasquatch, Bigfoot, yeti—but many Americans would say “I told you so” if they actually saw him. Fairies are another story ...

This month’s poll results include the suggestions that (a) a college degree makes you almost as likely to believe in the Loch Ness Monster as in Bigfoot (this sets graduates apart from the rest of the population, which is heavily Sasquatch-centric with respect to mythological creatures) and (b) getting a college degree will also make it five times more likely that you will believe in fairies than if you, say, hadn’t done something about that “incomplete.” (Maybe this isn’t surprising: in today’s economy, getting that degree is itself an act of faith.) But tucked away amid this notable data, and unrelated to the preceding as far as we can tell, is a faint but detectable portrait of an entire segment of our population: older Americans.

No, really. Here’s what emerges: Older folks are far less likely, given the opportunity, to spend counterfeit cash; are twice as concerned about football players’ long-term health issues as they are about boxers’; favor, among flavors, “chocolate” over the otherwise widely popular “steak”; and are less approving than their younger fellow citizens of social-network communication between teachers and students. In other words, older Americans are, basically, rectitudinous N.F.L.-watching sweet tooths.

But they’re also trustworthy. Even two-thirds of the under-30s think so. Which is amazing, because trusting anyone over 30, as anyone over 60 would have told you when he or she was under 30, makes about as much sense as believing in the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot.