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 ...
They were educated in Public Schools too.
I wonder how many of them are dimoKKKRATS?
That same 1 out of 4 people believe men control the weather, and the only way to keep the weather from destroying us is to vote for Democrats. Honestly, given everything else that 1 in 4 group thinks and doesn’t think, what they think about the orbits of celestial bodies seems insignificant.
Thanks to teachers unions...
...actually, the teachers unions have greatly succeeded in the purpose for which they were formed...that of empowering and enriching themselves...they exist for no other discernible purpose...
Such abject ignorance shows that these students were taught by teachers who also didn’t know the earth revolves around the sun. Perhaps they were too busy showing children how to put a condom on.
And two of four think the sun revolves around them.
And their votes count just as much as yours does.
Probably the same 25% who believe in “global warming”.
Next they’ll tell me the earth isn’t flat.
The good news is that they are completely incompetent.
Also discussed here:
What Americans Don’t Know About Science
The Atlantic ^ | Feb 15 2014, 9:24 AM ET | Eleanor Barkhorn
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3123325/posts
And a link to the full reports:
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/
I’m not sure that I would have scored well on this survey.
The earth (and all the planets) twist around the Sun as the Sun orbits the Milky Way. Think if the interwoven pattern in a braid. From the Earth, the simplest explanation of this phenomenon is that the Earth revolves around the Sun. In this Earth-centric view, the Sun is viewed as stationary. But, the Sun isn’t stationary. It and the Solar System are in orbit around the Milky Way. From outside the solar system, the relation of the Earth to the Sun isn’t well described as rotation.
With regarding to evolution, there is hardly any evidence of macro-evolution. There is a lot of evidence of micro-evolution. Species and life itself just seem to appear on the planet. The species that survive are those that are better suited to the environment. As there have been several revolutionary changes in the environment, not only species, but entire orders of life have died out. Among the species that have survived, distinct breeds have survived in various places featuring diverse environments. While several human-like apes co-existed with early man, where we or any of them came from isn’t clear. Nor is it clear that we and them are links in a chain of evolution. All that is clear, is that we survived and they didn’t.
“Only 66 percent of people in a 2005 European Union poll answered the basic astronomy answer correctly.”
NPR, the Blame America First station that American taxpayers pay for.
Problem being that within the 'little empty attic' sits the book saying the sun goes around the earth... which takes up exactly the same amount of space as a book describing the truth.
Of course it doesn’t. The Earth is flat supported on four elephants riding on a turtle. Some people just don’t understand science.
That’s what the tunnels are for. Just don’t get caught in the tunnels during night time.
-—G
Long ago, I had a hippie girlfriend named “Earth”, and well,...ah,...
Wait. I’ve gotten that wrong. It’s four turtles riding on one elephant. Glad I checked that out with Wikipedia.
the correct term is accretion.
gravity rules. the earth is acreting the moon. The sun is acreting the planets. A black hole is acreting the milky way, sun and planets.
The rings of Saturn are acretion debris concentrated in narrow bands. Some has acreted into clumps, satellites, moons
All appear to be traveling away from a centroid propelled by the initial momentum force
Part of the problem is that you have doctorate level socialists designing the curriculum.
There is some new goofy teaching methodology every year. Some of it is way out there like tools of the mind. Another was investigations math. And it goes on and on.
The new one is common core.
Worst of all, the kids are treated as little experiments. Guinea pigs for some new program. And if a new program fails the kids, so sorry. Actually, there is never an admission of failure.
The so call highly educated elites in education overlook one very simple fact: children with poor parents and families struggle.
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