A spokeswoman for state pollster VsTIOM said on Friday that one in every three Russians believe the sun revolves around the Earth.
A survey released this week said that 32 percent of Russians believed the Earth was the center of the Solar system, 55 percent believe that all radioactivity is man-made and 29 percent believe the first humans lived when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.
Now, I'm usually pretty skeptical when it comes to polls, particularly polls that involve different cultures because it is so easy to abuse the data. But the fact that anyone might thing the sun revolved around the Earth in this age of information is boggling. I just wanted to share that with you.
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According to a recent Gallup poll , 40% of Americans believe in young earth creationism. By my reading, this puts Russia as ahead of us on the reality track.
I never considered education on a global scale, at least not like this. I am truly surprised to learn that in what we consider developed countries that basic scientific knowledge is lacking so.
It's pretty damn lacking in many so-called "developed" countries too, all said.
18% of americans are geocentrists. http://www.gallup.com/poll/3742/new-poll-gauges-americans-general-knowledge-levels.aspx
they even found some idiot who somehow managed to get a phd in astronomy (from case-western) to lead them
http://www.geocentricity.com/
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