“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.

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 who died a few years after his hit record went platinum, “On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.”