>To the question "Does the Earth go around the Sun, or does the Sun go around the Earth," 26 percent of those surveyed answered incorrectly.
>In the same survey, just 39 percent answered correctly (true) that "The universe began with a huge explosion" and only 48 percent said "Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals."
>Just over half understood that antibiotics are not effective against viruses.
INB4 "Muh burger education" >Only 66 percent of people in a 2005 European Union poll answered the basic astronomy question correctly.
It's neither we follow the sun in a corkscrew through space
Connor Martinez
If you use the center of the Milky Way as the referential...
James Jones
Who cares? What does it matter to most people?
An astronomer needs to know these things, nobody else has any reason to care.
Grayson Sullivan
Greeks still haven't figured out sex via rectal passage will not lead to pregnancy, what chance do we lot have?
Aiden Barnes
US of A is more diverse than Europe so no big surprise.
Benjamin Sanders
Because it’s fundamental knowledge, not esoteric science. Somebody who doesn’t know that the Earth revolves around the Sun cannot possibly have a sensible worldview and shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
Daniel Morris
If you use Earth as the center then everything does in fact revolve around us.
Julian Davis
Based and truthpilled. People who are unaware of basic, objective facts should not vote, or be allowed to breed.
Jason Diaz
Wait till you tell them about the flat earthers.
William Lewis
>On the days when you have hope, user. When you start thinking that maybe people will "wake up" and start being reasonable, take a good hard look around you, and start to realize just how fucking stupid and clueless your fellow human is That's why Statism, of any kind, is an utopia Ancapism is the only logical path, people just need two things to make it work >hate States >know they own their own stuff Just that, being an egotist is a plus
Luke Jenkins
Fake news. (((They))) want you to think your fellow man is an idiot you can’t trust or isn’t worth saving. It’s all mind games.
Carson Smith
I have a physics degree but if some dork asked me to do a survey you bet I'm giving the stupidest answer possible.
Dylan Johnson
Motion isn't real. It's all about electromagnetism.
Hunter Hill
>Because it’s fundamental knowledge Its not you fucking moron, fundamental knowledge is knowing how to grow your own food, how to make clothes, to make iron, how to build chairs, how to convince people, etc You fucks have been indoctrinated so much by the statist school that you lost touch with all reality
>Somebody who doesn’t know that the Earth revolves around the Sun cannot possibly have a sensible worldview and shouldn’t be allowed to vote Youre really lost if you believe voting does anything, if it did it would be illegal dumbass
Levi Edwards
>realize just how fucking stupid and clueless your fellow human is >Americans >human Top kek
Jacob Davis
>Based and truthpilled. People who are unaware of basic, objective facts should not vote, or be allowed to breed. Oh really? Do you know what is the statistical error of the gravitational constant? C'mon just give me the intervals, should be easy enough for you
John Diaz
There is no such thing as objective reality
Bentley Taylor
that's roughly the percentage of the population that's nigger
Easton Brooks
You dont belong here at all and you should nevr post again. Voting does nothing. In all honesty you have no clue what the answer is somebody told you what to believe but you cant prove what they said i the truth. You just take their word for it like the rest of the science bd astronomy is my religion morons. You are worse than the people that dont "know" you
Dominic Robinson
The point we orbit is outside of the sun a good chunk of the time because Jupiter and Saturn pull the system's center of mass off center just enough for it to escape the sun. How can someone unable to properly understand the tiny details and mechanics like that be trusted to make competent decisions? Blind faith in gross generalizations without understanding is very dangerous when they're wrong.
Austin Thomas
Avoiding a mindset of “dude anarchy lmao” is exactly the reason why people should have basic worldly knowledge. There are things bigger than oneself, and burying you head in the sand doesn’t just make it go away.
Ayden Cook
>The point we orbit "we" dont, as the earth is flat
Kevin Thompson
>To the question "Is the earth your arbitrary reference point or is the sun your arbitrary reference point" 26 percent of those surveyed answered incorrectly.
Isaac Hall
This. There's no way in hell 25% of Americans are THAT stupid, even when factoring in niggers.
Kayden Collins
1 in 6 Americans are niggers. 1 in 4 Americans are spics.
Julian Barnes
>It's not MY JOB to know, so why do I need to know?!
Mutts are pathetic.
Jacob Butler
There is no center of the universe nigger, everything is pretty much just floating about being attracted by ever bigger shit
Jack Foster
I'm sitting here with my 3 american friends. If you are reading this there is a good chance ur the fking retard.
Lincoln Wood
commie
Jordan Walker
>"The universe began with a huge explosion" >>Only 66 percent of people in a 2005 European Union poll answered the basic astronomy question correctly. Yeah, well, that's not what the Big Bang is, smoothbrain. Open a fucking book at some point in your life, please.
Jonathan Harris
I am the OP and I do think the OP survey is sad, but IMO, I actually agree with the brazil-user here. "Basic knowledge" is indeed the simple things he mentioned. However, problem is, if you did a survey of people to find out if they knew how to grow their own food even far fewer of them would get it right. Much less how to make clothes, iron or build chairs. >Youre really lost if you believe voting does anything, if it did it would be illegal dumbass I believed this when I was young. The redpill / blackpill for me is when I realized that people are actually getting EXACTLY what they're voting for
Gabriel Kelly
maybe people just wanted to fuck around with a survey?
Luke Edwards
>The universe began with a huge explosion Is still the most retarded theory there is. It's no different to saying god willled the universe into existence. Atheists on reddit go apeshit when you mention the similarity. Good fun.
Parker Edwards
Euros did even worse though. I specifically mentioned that in my post. Jesus Christ, you all act like other people are stupid but don't even read.
Cameron Bennett
I mean it was a true false question, so it's far more likely that many people just didn't know the answer but arbitrarily guessed and got it right half of the time, meaning the actual number of people who know the right answer is far, far, far lower
Elijah Cox
>Its another "lets react to clickbait" thread Jesus, flat earthers are smarter than your average participant.
Samuel Bell
Please, tell me of a less retarded theory of how it happened. That explains all of the observations we have had of the universe, including the microwave background radiation, why galaxies seem to be flying apart (redshift). And then go ahead and claim your Nobel prize.
David Baker
Except some people ITT are actually defending the wrong answers to the questions asked, so clearly some amount of the stupidity is authentic.
Lincoln Murphy
Based and sherlock Holmes-pilled
Easton Morales
>Please, tell me of a less retarded theory of how it happened You don't have to fill the gap left when you abandon a stupid theory.
Nathan Clark
>f you did a survey of people to find out if they knew how to grow their own food even far fewer of them would get it right. Much less how to make clothes, iron or build chairs. yes, because the government thinks knowing about evolution and globe earth when youre a 5 year old is much more important for obscure reasons
Samuel Bell
>theory Actually, the big bang isn't worthy of even being called a theory. Let me substitute that for "stupid guess".
Luke Mitchell
Yeah, I agree with you. The education is completely backwards and exists solely to turn people into helpless, indoctrinated capitalist slaves AKA consumers.
Just the same, all of these people DID grow up and went through this system, and apparently they didn't even take away the basics of that pisspoor "education" that they DID get.
Henry Bailey
>You don’t have to fill the gaps left when you just don’t believe in anything
Damn, I never thought of it that way before.
Michael Edwards
Whenever I see shit like this I wonder if the people that answered the survey said the wrong answer as a joke, or the survey was carried out incorrectly, or both
I'd say being able to name 10 logical fallacies on the spot with no help is way more important when it comes to voting than knowing some basic astronomy. Yea I get what you're saying, but astronomy really isn't relevant to understanding how our society/gov/economy works.
Caleb Wilson
That's not true. Only the Jupiter + Sun system has a barycenter outside of the Sun.
Yea the more I look into basic scientific claims, the more I hate scientists and the drooling normies masses who lap up their every word. There's never existed a more obnoxious and pretentious group of people.
Jose Morales
>big bang (((theory))) >(((theory))) of evolution >(((true))) sounds like this quiz and npr are fucking retarded
Michael Howard
>NPR No thanks.
Hudson Butler
It is basic fucking knowledge that the Earth rotates around the Sun. This is grade school tier knowledge. It is indefensible to think otherwise. Fuck you, nigger.
Ethan Ortiz
Akcually both is wrong. Due to gravitational effects and relativistic geods, the sun also orbits the gravity well of earth to a certain degree.
Brody Jackson
Thinking that the sun goes around the earth has literally zero consequences for your life.
Nathan Myers
How did you make it to Japan, grug brain?
Christian Morales
>1 in 4 >US population is less than 50% european why do you idiots fall for this shit. it's no different than claiming that the US is super dangerous just because US niggers are killing each other all day long.
Noah Rivera
Everything changes once you realize that we’re in a dome and that the sun and moon are both within our atmosphere. Nearly EVERYTHING that we have been told is a lie. They’ve destroyed our common sense and objective critical thinking. We can look at the stars every single day yet we somehow believe that the earth is spinning at hundreds of mph while orbiting the sun at 66,600 mph.
It means you either have no curiosity about how the world around functions or worse, have incorrect knowledge of how shit works.
Liam Collins
Scientific theories are a fetish where pseudo-intellectuals claim to have every question answered. What matters is that every question is addressed with no regards to any sort of basis on reality or objective proof.
>You don’t have to fill the gaps left when you just don’t believe in anything
You literally implied that you must have a belief in some sort of theory just for the sake of having it fill the gaps.
Kayden Torres
2200 is a pitifully small sample.
Jeremiah Rodriguez
"Think about how stupid the average American is then realize, half of them are even stupider than that."
-George Carlin
Julian Stewart
Nigga, hold a fucking object in front of your face and move it to the right at a pace of 1 mile per hour. Then get in your car, drive beside any massive landmark like a skyscraper or mountain at 60 miles per hour.
There, I just solved your dilemma of why bigger farther shit appear stationary despite moving at faster speeds.