Here is the chart from the initial post the Discovery Magazine was referencing. (Green is good, Red is Bad.)
Posted on 03/29/2011 8:58:33 PM PDT by freedomwarrior998
The Audacious Epigone has a post up, Republicans are more scientifically literate than Democrats or independents are, where he reviews pro vs. anti-science attitude by party in the General Social Survey. He concludes that in fact Republicans are more scientifically literate across the issues than Democrats. Jason Malloy saw this trend four years ago in the GSS, and to some extent so have I. One point to keep in mind is that a few specific politicized scientific issues are very much the outliers in exhibiting tight partisan valences in opinion.
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Here is the chart from the initial post the Discovery Magazine was referencing. (Green is good, Red is Bad.)
Not terribly surprised to learn this. Liberals are a needy and dependent group of people who cannot be bothered with things technical. They are perfectly happy to let someone else deal with the details as long as it benefits them.
>> It takes the Earth one year to rotate around the Sun.
It only takes 24 hours.
Huh, 20%+ of the people don’t know the earth rotates around the sun?????
Some of these could be open to picky point arguments.
Science is something neutral, like fire or wood or water. Whether its “harms” fall behind its “benefits” depend on the context of use. Surely Dr. Mengele’s subjects might have begged to differ.
Funny that better than 40% of Democrats are skeptics about humans evolving from animals. Could there still be hope for persuading them not to act as though they had such an origin?
It might be clearer to say the earth “orbits” the sun rather than “revolves around” it. “Revolving” is ambiguous and could as plausibly refer to rotation about an axis.
umm, rotate not revolve... but that points up the ambiguity.
Uh, really?
I sorta agree; the earth rotates once every 24 hrs, and orbits around the sun in 365 1/4 days.
I have know so many liberals and democrats who obsess over their astrology charts it isn’t even funny.
All my Conservative and Republican friends feel astrology is a big waste of time.
Nice to be vindicated.
>> I sorta agree...
LOL - you know damn well I’m right, and you stated why.
The earth doesn't rotate around the sun. The earth revolves around the sun over a one-year period. It rotates on its own axis once every 24 hours.
The earth rotates on its own axis once every 24 hours. That isn’t rotating around the Sun.
If I am a hundred yards from you and I see you spin in a circle, you didn’t just rotate around me.
“Astrology” by any objective view is even further out than E.S.P. because no formal process can be defined for making predictions of the supposed effects of the stars and planets upon human affairs. At least E.S.P. could in principle be empirically tested for. Now I’m hearing that the old equally spaced “sun signs” which just about everybody understood (even if they firmly knew them to be nonsense) have become obsolete and there are now thirteen irregularly sized calendar groupings. Who clued in the astrologers about that?
They should have framed it differently, with unambiguous fact - like....
a) Humans and chimpanzees are more similar in DNA to each other than either is to a gorilla.
b) Gorillas and chimpanzees are more similar in DNA to each other than either is to a human.
c) Humans and gorillas are more similar in DNA to each other than either is to a chimpanzee.
d) Humans chimpanzees and gorillas are all equally dissimilar in DNA.
Only one of those answers is true.
>> but that points up the ambiguity.
That might explain the low percentages on that question.
I recall taking tests where the implication outweighed the logical conclusion. Ambiguous test questions are the worst... hate ‘em with a passion.
The north pole is only sometimes on a sheet of ice.
At times it has melted.
Yes, the Earth is completing a full rotation around the Sun every 24 hours. It’s orbital translation occurs in approximately 365 rotations.
It’s -> Its
LOL. English becomes more vague and misused each day.
>> The earth revolves around the sun over a one-year period.
And how many days in a one-year period? What is a day?
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