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- jstohler, on 10/11/2007, -42/+543The Bush Administration is in the process of rounding up all those people and giving them Cabinet-level jobs.
- jmpeagle, on 10/11/2007, -5/+337"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
-Winston Churchill - kinseyincanada, on 10/11/2007, -25/+246there is no way this can be true, most certainly some Americans believe this but the 1 in 5 has to be a skewed statistic, if anyone went to elementary school or even watched an episode of the magic school bus they know that the earth revolves around the sun.
- trghpy, on 10/11/2007, -35/+196Thats kinda funny because of all countries you'd think America would have a good grasp on gravity seeing how one in five Americans have small objects orbiting them.
- JohnboiWaltune, on 10/11/2007, -7/+122Don't laugh, it is possible to be homeschooled by Christian fundamentalists, get a law degree from Pat Robertson's "university", and go straight to work for the Bush administration... hundreds of people have done just that.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/05/liberty_univers.html - wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -15/+107Please, you bastards revolve around me. (And no, I'm not Peter Griffin)
- shawnbttu, on 10/11/2007, -3/+71America - Home of the Brave, Gullible and Incredibly Stupid
- Waiting2awake, on 10/11/2007, -10/+75 I agree. I simply can not imagine 20% of the American population thinks this. It has to be a joke somewhere.
- wayback09, on 10/11/2007, -34/+95Did I miss something in that blogspam? Oh that is right, another made up survey with no factual basis to back this claim up.
Is this one of those surveys that they surveyed ten mentally retarded second graders and two out of ten said this? Buried for just plain stupid. - Zarokima, on 10/11/2007, -20/+77Sadly, I think Magic School Bus is a bit too highbrow for many Americans.
- Evacide, on 10/11/2007, -8/+6171% of all statistics are made up on the spot
- blorc, on 10/11/2007, -9/+62http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhlERjW0bhw
"56% of France thinks the Sun orbits around the Earth"
Look! I can make grossly unfounded and inaccurate generalizations too!
Blogspam = Buried. - HunterTV, on 10/11/2007, -4/+475 in 5 neocons respond to rational arguments with personal attacks.
- Zarokima, on 10/11/2007, -0/+43OMG! They're the same person!
- MasterThief117, on 10/11/2007, -2/+45Just like going to court.
Next time you are in front of a jury, just remember, those are the 12 people who were not smart enough to get out of jury duty. - humperdeath, on 10/11/2007, -2/+43Idiots!
The Sun revolves around the moon! Once every 28 days. it is obvious because that is how the moon changes its' phase from Full moon to half to quarter to no moon. Duh! - Tippis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+40"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
-Dito - getmedia, on 10/11/2007, -4/+37I didn't believe this when I read it - but here's a NY times article that backs it up....
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/science/30profile.html?ex=1183780800&en=e3760aa7d1b5022a&ei=5070 - jcounterman, on 10/11/2007, -3/+36It's all about how the damn question was asked and then how the responses were manipulated. It's to the point that I simply do not trust statistics drawn from surveys until I see the questions.
- DeathJux, on 10/11/2007, -3/+34Heads up folks, half the population have an IQ of less than 100... somewhere around half the population are dumber than average (and think about your average person)... we live in a world infested with mediocrity.
The upside is that these people rarely find themselves in positions of power, content to slag on by attending to their own affairs. - coheedcollapse, on 10/11/2007, -10/+40I find this difficult to believe. Not one person I know personally out of the hundreds and hundreds that I know would believe that the sun revolves around the earth...even the stupid rabidly religious ones. Something has to be up here.
- crzdmn, on 10/11/2007, -4/+34In the process is an understatement. They're about done.
- superrcat, on 10/11/2007, -5/+32Sources?
- DeathJux, on 10/11/2007, -3/+30Yep, it's called an eclipse.
- PigThief, on 10/11/2007, -5/+32Agreed. It's so easy to pass off false statistics, and this is just ridiculous. The article might have had more credibility without that one statistic.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -9/+37and then, think about this. Have you ever seen the sun and the moon in the same place at the same time?
- JohnboiWaltune, on 10/11/2007, -7/+33Technically, the earth does not orbit the sun. Every object in the solar system, including the sun, orbits the solar system's center of mass. The center of mass is an imaginary point that happens to lie within the sun, because most of the solar system's mass is contained in the sun.
This is why we can detect extrasolar planets, because they cause their solar system's center of mass to shift enough that the star's orbit around that point is detectable. - lsatkins, on 10/11/2007, -3/+28I just did a quick survey of 5 people and they all said the Earth revolved around the Sun. I guess that means 100% of Americans believe the Earth revolves around the Sun right?
- archiesteel, on 10/11/2007, -2/+27I'll wager that those who are more educated were *not* homeschooled by Christian fundamentalists...
- Burn, on 10/11/2007, -2/+26No, it was a reference to Americans being really fat.
- crawf061, on 10/11/2007, -6/+29FTA ---"One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century." Said Jon D. Miller, a political scientists who directs the Center for Biomedical Communications at the Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, he regularly surveys Americans for his clients which include the National Science Foundation on the public’s knowledge and attitudes towards science in general.
There is the source... for what it's worth. - Moocat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23Hey David, at least stay on the same train buddy, both sides have admitting global warming exists at this stage in the game, the only contention is as to what causes it. It doesn't get any better than proving the article right in Digg comments :P
- dreamstorm, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22Obviously the solution is to add a skill-testing questions to the ballot:
1. The earth revolves around the sun (true/false)
2. I vote for president: ________
If you get the first question wrong, your vote doesn't count! - omarciddo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23In Soviet Russia...yadda yadda yadda.
- PleaseJustDie, on 10/11/2007, -2/+22Because people wanting to have more freedom and less big brother and government wastefulness is soooooo extreme.
- Zephkiel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/science/30profile.html?ex=1183780800&en=e3760aa7d1b5022a&ei=5070
A Google search for "Jon D Miller 1 in 5" brought this article up. From it:
Over the last three decades, Dr. Miller has regularly surveyed his fellow citizens for clients as diverse as the National Science Foundation, European government agencies and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. People who track Americans' attitudes toward science routinely cite his deep knowledge and long track record. - Poppeseed, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20Fake. Last time I checked it was 67%.
- oxdeltaxo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20Never admit fault on the internet!!!!!!11!! Always go straight to flaming.
- TheRingmaster, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18I regularly see the sun and the moon at the same time
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+22you vastly overestimate the intelligence of the average American.
consider this: Surveys are also fairly consistent in their estimates of how many Americans believe in evolution or creationism. Approximately 40%-50% of the public accepts a biblical creationist account of the origins of life, while comparable numbers accept the idea that humans evolved over time. The wording of survey questions generally makes little systematic difference in this division of opinion.
http://people-press.org/commentary/display.php3?AnalysisID=118
This means that TWICE as many people believe in the "God created man in his image" FAIRY tale than believe that the earth orbits the sun (or its center of mass ... or whatever that geek said)
The "fly over" is chock full of simpletons. - crzdmn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/science/30profile.html?ex=1183780800&en=e3760aa7d1b5022a&ei=5070
to bad for you and the rest of us americans it's true. - oxdeltaxo, on 10/11/2007, -4/+20There ya go http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/05/24/MN67867.DTL happy?
- FISHMANPET, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17No, they just vote those lucky few into power.
- dacheetah, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18@pinko.
God that is a stupid comment. (no pun inten... ah who am I kidding.)
All athiests know that there is a difference between "God" and "a god", one being a proper-noun (a name) the other being a normal noun like cat or dog.
Just because we deny that either exist doesn't mean we don't know the difference. - dacheetah, on 10/24/2007, -3/+18Since when grammar matter? I talk good Englishes coz I right wing. Right wing be opposite to wrong wing.
- irish, on 10/11/2007, -8/+231 in 5 non-Americans believe anything negative about Americans
- omarciddo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15HAHA IGNORANCE LOLZ!
It appears your defense mechanism is to attack others without proving us wrong. Can you prove we didn't go for oil? - Terr01, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15It is you who are the educated evil bad one because earth is one in four harmonious time cube!
http://timecube.com/ - sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -7/+211 in 5 puppets believe Digg revolves around them.
- MrFatalistic, on 10/11/2007, -12/+25Hi political diggers, say hello to my digg filter, you're officially now too biased and retarded for me to have to deal with anymore.
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