You get different percentages depending on what you’re counting.
I regularly choose one of the first countries in those forms that collect your info so they can spam you. There’s some marketing person out there who is convinced Albania and Afghanistan are a cloud computing Mecca.
That doesn’t make me “crazy”.
Similarly, over 5% of students are on ADHD medication but they’re not what I would consider nuts.
What I mean is that there are people that would be homeless vagrants shouting about space worms burrowing into everyone’s brains, but they’re on medication and got a government job where from they’re nearly unfireable even if they stop taking their pills one day.
Two of my friends are conspiracy theorists… in private. It’s basically a fan-fiction club to them, a setting in which to make up stories.
I’ve met an IT guy who truly believed that software updates were a conspiracy and made sure that every system in that place used the “clean” golden image from the original CD and was never ever patched.
There are statics like “20% of all adults have some mental health issue” and then there is the guy who literally spends his day planning your murder because you didn’t talk to him at the water cooler.
