Strange...who knows maybe they're right

It's all according to what they wanted to show. The narrative they wanted to put out there.

Just like when NBC Dateline did that story about some pickup trucks exploding when they crashed. So the people at Dateline got some of those trucks and crashed them. But none of them exploded. So they took another one and rigged it up with explosives and blew it up on the show and said it showed how they exploded on contact. They later had to apologize for that.
Same when they edited the 911 call from Zimmerman in the Treyvon Martin case. They wanted to "prove" that Zimmerman was a racist. They had to apologize for that too.

What I'm saying is...I'm thinking that it's entirely possible that the guy doing that poll wanted to show that the American education system isn't teaching enough science. So he made sure to poll the "right" people to prove it.

If you really wanted to know if kids are learning science, then you would poll kids at high schools and ask them.
I doubt very seriously that there are very many high school seniors who believe the Sun rotates the Earth. lol

Would it really matter, especially at this point?

What if you want to know the knowledge of Americans in general?

even more basic question would be "why does the earth revolve around the earth?"...
I doubt most in this thread would be able to answer a basic question like that if confronted about it on the street...

I don't know.. because of Earth's disparencies? Although that is not basic question.

of course it's basic... it's only 1 step past knowing that "earth revolves around the sun" (which really is just a useless fact people memorize when they are 5 years old)

... a natural obvious next question is "why"...

Your obvious next question isn't the same you presented before. Can I answer "gravity" to all these additional questions without further explanation?

yea, I mis-typed the original question, my bad.. :-/
but yea, the answer is close enough... :)

Right, because one Muslim would never kill another.

fifty Slovakians reporting news that AssDonkey should be on top of
http://i.imgur.com/atBBut8.jpg

Good question. It's just hard to fathom that ANYBODY would think that the Sun revolves around the Earth in this day and age. It isn't like television hasn't been around for decades. Dumb people watch t.v. so they would know at least that much about the Earth and Sun.

And for the younger generation, the internet has been around for a couple of decades and again...they would know.

Either way, it's NOT "he state of science education" as the ABC article said.
If you poll people who have no education (dropped out of school), then you are going to get skewed answers and since they didn't finish school you can't make a judgement about the quality of education.

See what I mean?

It would be like someone asking you or I how to build a nuclear reactor.
Well, I've never had the training to know how to do that.
So for the person asking me that to say that it reflects on the "state of education regarding nuclear science" would be preposterous.

As I said, I would imagine that if you REALLY wanted to know how the "state of science education" is in the U.S. (or any other country)...you would poll current high school students or at the very least...people who completed high school.

Remember, the article didn't say it reflected on PEOPLE in general. It specifically said it was reflecting on the "state of science education".