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American Adults Flunk Basic Science
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| 3/13/2009
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Posted on 03/19/2009 6:27:05 PM PDT by freedumb2003
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Res ipsa loquitur. Beyond that I have no comment.
To: freedumb2003
These are the same people that the morons in the “media” are always asking if THEY THINK “global warming” really exists.
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:31:30 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Just being a "U.S. citizen" does not make one an American.)
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?
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:32:28 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
To: freedumb2003
but I bet they can name all the contestants on American Idol
To: coloradomomba
>>but I bet they can name all the contestants on American Idol
Sadly probably true
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:42:52 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
To: coloradomomba
I’d do better on the science questions than on questions about American Idle.
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:44:09 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Be calm everyone. The idiot child is in charge!)
To: freedumb2003
Some of the questions on their so-called test give only partial information and are, therefore, subjective.
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:44:43 PM PDT
by
Jukeman
(.)
To: Jukeman
>>Some of the questions on their so-called test give only partial information and are, therefore, subjective.
Such as?
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:45:36 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
To: freedumb2003
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.
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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...)
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.
To: Tanniker Smith
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!
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:49:13 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
To: freedumb2003
>Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun
Um, 1 year?
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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.)
To: freedumb2003
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:53:41 PM PDT
by
Jukeman
(.)
To: Jukeman
>>Evolution.
Which question asked about Evolution at all, much less gave partial information about it?
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:55:26 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
To: OneWingedShark
Shhhh — don’t give it away
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posted on
03/19/2009 6:58:15 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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?
To: freedumb2003
Another bouquet of roses to the N.E.A. for their stellar work.
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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.")
To: freedumb2003
I haven’t been following it this time around, but I know Obama WON the last one.
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posted on
03/19/2009 7:06:16 PM PDT
by
Repeat Offender
(While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
To: freedumb2003
Sciencedaily.com has their little test which asks questions about evolution.
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posted on
03/19/2009 7:19:41 PM PDT
by
Jukeman
(.)
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.
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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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