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Schmee:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 08 Apr 2014, 01:42 ---
--- Quote from: That article ---About one in four Americans believe in geocentrism, which places the Earth at the center of the universe and the sun, planets, and stars revolving around it.
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Can that really be true?

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I doubt it. The survey question was likely biased, or just worded oddly. Maybe I'm optimistic, maybe I'm overestimating Americans, but 25% is ridiculous.

LTK:
The survey in question is the National Science Board’s Science and Engineering Indicators 2014, and it's also reported on here, so you can poke around and judge for yourself.

Barmymoo:
If someone said to me "Quick! Which is larger, an electron or an atom?" I'd easily have a 1 in 4 chance of giving the wrong answer out of confusion. Equally, the same with "Does the sun go round the earth?". It's more worrying when people know what science says but persist in disbelieving it because it's incompatible with what they want to be true (what my dad calls belief-based facts; he kept going on about it when Redball visited, sorry about that Bob...).

cesium133:
You can get at least 10% of people to agree with just about any survey question, no matter how ridiculous. I seem to remember a survey a couple years ago where people gave a higher approval rating to herpes than to the U.S. Congress. For every 10 people they asked, one basically said "sure, herpes sounds like a good idea"...

Kugai:
Does it mean I'm a cynic on the mentality of most Americans that I was more shocked by the fact that Kate Mulgrew, of all people,  lent her name to this?

I mean, come on!!!  A paycheck's a paycheck, but some paychecks aren't worth the Latinum.

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