1/4 of Americans believe the sun revolves around earth
by John Seiler | February 16, 2014 9:35 am
[1]It’s hard to think of any more damning condemnation of American “education” than this. These people also vote, including for more tax money for more miseducation. And remember, California’s education system is near the bottom of a U.S. system, which is near the bottom on international testing. From National Public Radio[2]:
“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[3].
“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.[4]
“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.
It’s a good think they didn’t ask, “Who was Copernicus?” Results would have been <1%.
(For the record, he was a Polish rap star[5] who died a few years after his hit record went platinum, “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.”
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- National Public Radio: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/14/277058739/1-in-4-americans-think-the-sun-goes-around-the-earth-survey-says
- National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/
- American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/content/chapter-7/c07.pdf
- a Polish rap star: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/
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