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American Adults Flunk Basic Science
Science Daily ^ | 3/13/2009 | ScienceDaily

Posted on 03/19/2009 6:27:05 PM PDT by freedumb2003

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# Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun. # Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time. # Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth's surface that is covered with water.* # Only 21% of adults answered all three questions correctly

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TOPICS: Education; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: areusmarter; catastrophism; education; godsgravesglyphs; jaywalking; publicschools; publikschoolz; science; scienceeducation; stringtheory; xplanets
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Res ipsa loquitur. Beyond that I have no comment.
1 posted on 03/19/2009 6:27:05 PM PDT by freedumb2003
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To: freedumb2003

These are the same people that the morons in the “media” are always asking if THEY THINK “global warming” really exists.


2 posted on 03/19/2009 6:31:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Just being a "U.S. citizen" does not make one an American.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

>>These are the same people that the morons in the “media” are always asking if THEY THINK “global warming” really exists.

You mean American Adults?


3 posted on 03/19/2009 6:32:28 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: freedumb2003

but I bet they can name all the contestants on American Idol


4 posted on 03/19/2009 6:40:29 PM PDT by coloradomomba
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To: coloradomomba

>>but I bet they can name all the contestants on American Idol

Sadly probably true


5 posted on 03/19/2009 6:42:52 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: coloradomomba

I’d do better on the science questions than on questions about American Idle.


6 posted on 03/19/2009 6:44:09 PM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot child is in charge!)
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To: freedumb2003

Some of the questions on their so-called test give only partial information and are, therefore, subjective.


7 posted on 03/19/2009 6:44:43 PM PDT by Jukeman (.)
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>>Some of the questions on their so-called test give only partial information and are, therefore, subjective.

Such as?


8 posted on 03/19/2009 6:45:36 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun.

Trick question. The Sun and the planets and the stars are revolve around Earth.

# Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time.

As if! Everyone knows that the dinosaurs never actually existed. God put their bones into the ground for us to find.

# Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth's surface that is covered with water.*

Okay, those other 53% are a bunch of doofuses.
Doofi.

9 posted on 03/19/2009 6:47:32 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and...)
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To: freedumb2003
Ahhh, the unquestionably ineffective public education system and it's work product in all it's glory.

We can now add scientific illiteracy to economic illiteracy, Constitutional illiteracy, historical illiteracy and literature illiteracy. Good times, good times.

10 posted on 03/19/2009 6:47:34 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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Okay, those other 53% are a bunch of doofuses. Doofi.

I was gonna wag my finger at you until you corrected yourself on that one!

11 posted on 03/19/2009 6:49:13 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: freedumb2003

>Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun

Um, 1 year?


12 posted on 03/19/2009 6:51:36 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: freedumb2003

Evolution.


13 posted on 03/19/2009 6:53:41 PM PDT by Jukeman (.)
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>>Evolution.

Which question asked about Evolution at all, much less gave partial information about it?


14 posted on 03/19/2009 6:55:26 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Shhhh — don’t give it away


15 posted on 03/19/2009 6:58:15 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: freedumb2003

Funny, It all depends on the level of precision.

A person might say that there are 365 days in a year but they would be wrong 1 in 4 years as a leap year has 366 days.

As for dino and human ... if my time window was a billion years ... then yes they would have lived together.

And as for the percent of water, does the precision need to take into account only oceans and seas, or do I also need to account for ice, snow and temperate surface water?


16 posted on 03/19/2009 6:59:12 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: freedumb2003
Another bouquet of roses to the N.E.A. for their stellar work.
17 posted on 03/19/2009 7:01:15 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli now reads "Oil the gun..eat the cannolis.")
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To: freedumb2003

I haven’t been following it this time around, but I know Obama WON the last one.


18 posted on 03/19/2009 7:06:16 PM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: freedumb2003

Sciencedaily.com has their little test which asks questions about evolution.


19 posted on 03/19/2009 7:19:41 PM PDT by Jukeman (.)
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To: freedumb2003
I'd love to see this broken down by race.

We can only use race to prove victimization, though.

It's not politically correct to use it to prove stupidity.

20 posted on 03/19/2009 7:22:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Only after disaster can we be resurrected." -- Tyler Durden)
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