Life is meaningless?

[Hagar]

Originally Posted by Bullitt

I think we should keep in mind that this seems a canned response, a survey answer choice. The students weren't saying that life is a meaningless existential hell, they were just >50% in agreement with the statement presented to them by the testers.

I think that this is right. If I'd been presented with this survey option as a student, I'd have picked it for fun and then chuckled at myself all day for being soooo clever.

Depending on the survey target group, I doubt that 27% of students would have even known what "existentialism" was.