Here is the chart from the initial post the Discovery Magazine was referencing. (Green is good, Red is Bad.) Here is the chart from the initial post the Discovery Magazine was referencing. (Green is good, Red is Bad.)>> It takes the Earth one year to rotate around the Sun.
It only takes 24 hours.
Huh, 20%+ of the people don’t know the earth rotates around the sun?????
Some of these could be open to picky point arguments.
Science is something neutral, like fire or wood or water. Whether its “harms” fall behind its “benefits” depend on the context of use. Surely Dr. Mengele’s subjects might have begged to differ.
Funny that better than 40% of Democrats are skeptics about humans evolving from animals. Could there still be hope for persuading them not to act as though they had such an origin?
It might be clearer to say the earth “orbits” the sun rather than “revolves around” it. “Revolving” is ambiguous and could as plausibly refer to rotation about an axis.
umm, rotate not revolve... but that points up the ambiguity.
The north pole is only sometimes on a sheet of ice.
At times it has melted.
LOL. It’s noteworthy that Republicans lead in virtually every category except the one regarding belief in evolution. That suggests that creationists may be more scientifically literate than evolutionists. It would be interesting if they broke out the data so as to analyze for such a hypothesis.
An oddity is “Continental drift has and continues to occur.” Are Reps marking it down for poor grammar?
(The score on “Humans evolved from other animals” I understand.)
The North Pole is NOT covered with ice by late summer.
There IS such a thing as an acoustic laser.
I would argue that the north pole is below a sheet of ice.
It looks to me like the Discovery article tried to misrepresent the situation. The chart you posted from the original blog post showed a mean average for dims, independents, and pubbys of 70.87%, 70.06%, and 74.80%, respectively. Thus, the pubbies outstrip the dims by 3.93 percentage points, and the independents by 4.74 percentage points.
Excluding the question on evolution, which seems extremely simplistic and biased to me, the pubbies beat the dims by 5.04 percentage points, and the independents by 5.51 percentage points.
Now, I’m not about to do an analysis of variance at this time of night—or at this time of life—but I’m betting those numbers are statistically significant.