1 in 4 Americans do not know Earth revolves around the Sun

[John Galt]

[exploited]

Do the results correlate with states that teach creationism and what not?

[Dylan]

[exploited]

[Professor]

I looked, and didn't see the survey or its methodology. But, only 2 states have laws specifically allowing creationism to be taught in public schools. Louisiana and Tennessee, and both those laws were passed in 2012 or later. However, Florida, Indiana and Ohio have numerous publicly-funded, private schools that teach creationism. A smattering of those kinds of schools are also found in GA, CO, UT, AZ, WI and MD.

I doubt there is much correlation.

I think that people, in general, are simply ignorant. Ever watch one of those Leno "talk to the people" things he used to do? Lots of people have an incurable case of the stupids.

[NAB]

[John Galt]

there's a bunch of information in here...

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/

but, in the EU its at 66%, so don't get too smug. the only question americans didn't do better than everybody else ( was actually the question on evolution

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/c ... -7/c07.pdf (page 7-23)


oh and in the first link you can see states in regards to children's proficiency. the worst in science are District of Columbia (by far and away the worst, they had to make the graph ave a cut in it in order to include them at the bottom), Mississippi, California, Arizona, Hawaii

[Winchester]

I knew people were ignorant... but Christ.

[Spider]

Ask yourselves though....do you actually know anybody that isn't aware that the earth revolves around the sun?

Because I don't. Maybe I should start asking people.

National Geographic did a big survey like this years ago that was extremely depressing, but that was geography. I'm damn certain that Americans in general suck at geography. When you have to go thousands of miles to find another country, and even then there are only two to choose from, unless you get on a plane and fly across oceans, I guess it doesn't sink in as a priority.

[Dylan]