OK, the Bad News Bear reports that 1 out of 4
Americans don’t know that the Earth revolves around our sun.
I guess, in a way, we’re sort of talking about
rocket science, but, hey, it’s not a complicated bit of knowledge.
The National Science Foundation surveyed 2,200
adults and reported that only 74% could correctly state that our favorite
planet revolves around our favorite star.
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| Ptolemy was wrong |
It seems to me it’s a fairly easy fact to
learn, and there’s no big reason why anyone should forget it.
More than 85% of adults are high school
graduates, so obviously a chunk of those folks didn’t pick up on the solar
system basics while they were in school.
As we think about public policy, politics,
public opinion and civic engagement, I think we have to keep in mind that there’s
a lot of stuff that a lot of folks don’t know.
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