Posted on 04/06/2018 2:11:11 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
A Third Of Millennials Aren’t Sure The Earth Is Round, Survey Finds
April 5, 2018 at 1:28 pm
CBS Local — A new survey has found that a third of young millennials in the U.S. aren’t convinced the Earth is actually round. The national poll reveals that 18 to 24-year-olds are the largest group in the country who refuse to accept the scientific facts of the world’s shape.
YouGov, a British market research firm, polled 8,215 adults in the United States to find out if they ever believed in the “flat Earth” movement. Only 66 percent of young millennials answered that they “always believe the world is round.” Science teachers across the U.S. will be shaking their heads after learning that nine percent of young adults answered that they have “always believed” the planet was flat.
Another nine percent said of young adults said they thought the planet was spherical but had doubts about it. In a disturbing display of indecision, 16 percent of millennials said they weren’t sure what the shape of the planet was.
Overall, only two percent of the respondents said they always thought the Earth was flat without any doubt. YouGov found that age was directly connected to Americans’ views on the shape of the world. Seventy-six percent of adults age 25-34 say they’ve always believed the Earth is round, compared to 82 percent of ages 35-44, 85 percent of ages 45-54, and 94 percent of adults 55 and over.
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Obviously the earth is round. If it was flat cats would have knocked everything off the edge by now.
We can just pray that they are just yanking the pollsters’ chains.
Our schools are really doing a bang up job.
That is really disturbing. Because, it is settled science.
It’s actually spherical isn’t it?
Technically, it is an oblate spheroid. But Im not sure that is taught anymore. Lol
Well, technically it’s cylindrical.
That is really disturbing. Because, it is settled science.
Someone tell me this is a joke.
What did you expect from Tide-Pod eaters anyway?
The earth is not round, but CO2 is a dangerous pollutant.
Generation Tide Pod.
It’s turtles all the way down.
Beat me to it!
Maybe if we all took a vote on it they might believe..................
Sounds about right.
“A new survey has found that a third of young millennials in the U.S. aren’t convinced the Earth is actually round.”
It’s actually an oblate spheroid. It’s not round:
“Strange but True: Earth Is Not Round” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-is-not-round/
Good point.
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