Monday, February 17, 2014

Good news, 3 in 4 Americans realize that the sun does not revolve around the earth. Yeah, there really is no way to put a positive spin on this.

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Good news, 3 in 4 Americans realize that the sun does not revolve around the earth. Yeah, there really is no way to put a positive spin on this.
For this I spent nine years in prison?
Courtesy of NPR:

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.

In the same survey, just 39 percent answered correctly (true) that "The universe began with a huge explosion" and only 48 percent said "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals."

This, THIS, is what the conservatives have done to education in America.

These are not even hard questions.

Bill Nye is right, this country is going down the crapper, and the solution is more of this:


Good news, 3 in 4 Americans realize that the sun does not revolve around the earth. Yeah, there really is no way to put a positive spin on this.



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