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The second edition of the Survey of American Fears may surprise you. While things like terrorism and economic collapse are on the list, they aren't first, second, or third.
The work by California's Chapman University polled more than 1,500 adults, asking about nearly 90 spooky things.
The school writes they "broke the fears into four categories: personal fears, natural disasters, paranormal fears, and drivers of fear behavior."
Respondents then ranked each situation with a number from 1 (not afraid) to 4 (very afraid).
The top ten are below.
- Corruption of government officials: 58.0%
- Cyber-terrorism: 44.8%
- Corporate tracking of personal information: 44.6%
- Terrorist attacks: 44.4%
- Government tracking of personal information: 41.4%
- Bio-warfare: 40.9%
- Identity theft: 39.6%
- Economic collapse: 39.2%
- Running out of money in the future: 37.4%
- Credit-card fraud: 36.9%
Tornados, snakes, drunk drivers, aging and needles also made the list. Click here to see the entire list.
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