Posted on 02/15/2014 10:54:37 AM PST by kingattax
A quarter of Americans surveyed could not correctly answer that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, according to a report out Friday from the National Science Foundation.
The survey of 2,200 people in the United States was conducted by the NSF in 2012 and released on Friday at an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.
To the question "Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth," 26 percent of those surveyed answered incorrectly.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
It suddenly appears because (1) there is a mutation and (2) the mutation has a function or has no opposing function.
“There bad news is that there a lots of liberals in the world. The good news is that they are completely incompetent.”
Authority in the hands of an incompetent is a fearsome thing.
They will all be evolved.
Finally, a post that begins at one of the ROOTS of the problems we have here in the US.
Bring back all the jobs you want from China, if you have a population of uneducated dolts, it does no good.
They've bought into the myth that man is "killing the planet".
Europe was even more taken by that falsehood.
4. All radioactivity is man-made
Correct answer: False
A new Associated Press-GfK poll found 31 percent of Americans describe Obama as an above-average president, while 2 percent view him as average and 42 percent describe his presidency as below average or poor.
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2014/January/Most-Unimpressed-with-Obamas-Job-Performance/
Soon we’ll see this problem remedied; 1, Sherlock Holmes books will be banned; 2, the semantics that enable this misconception, e.g. “sunrise” and “sunset” will be eliminated by zero tolerance policies.
So, does the graph represent those who correctly answered “false?”
I bet they used ambush journalism to determine this. It is a common scam.
You approach a person on the street, stick a microphone in their face, and ask them an uncommon question, or to make a common, but incorrect statement.
The trick is that if you just gave them the question, with a little time to ponder it, they would eventually reach the right answer; but you act nervous, like the clock is ticking, and they cannot think, they must answer now, now, now!
Like I said, it is a scam. A favorite is to ask people a simple math question, or to name public figures. Years ago, there was “The EQ test”, asking people simple questions about economics, but giving them no time to think.
In this case, shove a microphone in someone’s face, and ask them, “What time do you think the Sun comes up these days?”
“About 6am, I guess.”
“Wow, you are ignorant. You don’t know that the world turns. The Sun doesn’t ‘come up’!”
But not nearly fearsome as power in the hands of a competent tyrant.
American liberals are a bunch of bumbling idiots.
My understanding is that the graph line is “correct answer”. The one for Earth around the Sun is just a little longer.
NPR is selectively reporting. ALL THINGS CONSIDERED indeed.
First of all, no one answers incorrectly. People don’t get wrong answers these days.
Second, I’d bet a huge majority are obama voters.
That’s okay, nearly half the nation thinks the universe revolves around Obama.
:’) I know what ya mean. On Facebook I keep looking for the “Dislike” button.
I think the word “revolves” confused the people, it even seems to have confused the headline writer.
The EU was even dumber, because their education system is probably even worse than ours
Most on welfare think that the Sun rotates around the Earth!
The new school superintendent in Camden says it was a “kick-in-the-stomach moment” when he learned that only three district high school students who took the SAT this year scored as college-ready.
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