Post by bato2 on Feb 14, 2011 3:13:45 GMT -5
A Third of Russians Believe the Sun Revolves Around the Earth
If you thought America was the land of the uneducated–That’s a joke, because it’s not–wait till you find out that one third of Russians believe the sun revolves around the earth.
No joke. According to a survey published on Wednesday by the Russian Center of Public Opinion Research, Thirty-two percent of Russians reject a heliocentric solar system, believing instead in Ptolemy’s 2000-year old geocentric model.
The survey highlighted scientific superstitions among Russians and was released as President Medvedev called for a revival of the lunar and deep space programs that brought Russia out of the industrial age and into the space age decades ago.
The same survey also found 55 percent of Russians believe that radioactivity is a human invention, which betrays a misunderstanding of how X-Rays work.
A further 29 percent also believe humans lived in the era of dinosaurs, much like the Flintstones. The survey found women more likely (though it does not specify by how much) to believe in such superstitions than men.
The survey was conducted in January among 1,600 people in different regions with a 3.4% margin of error. Discounting the fact that some of them could’ve been trolls, a large percentage of those who participated in the survey are either old and senile, or completely ignorant.
“Sun comes up, sun goes down. Never a miscommunication.” Bill O’Reilly would have a lot in common with these uneducated Russians.
www.popjolly.com/a-third-of-russians-believe-the-sun-revolves-around-the-earth-1774
If you thought America was the land of the uneducated–That’s a joke, because it’s not–wait till you find out that one third of Russians believe the sun revolves around the earth.
No joke. According to a survey published on Wednesday by the Russian Center of Public Opinion Research, Thirty-two percent of Russians reject a heliocentric solar system, believing instead in Ptolemy’s 2000-year old geocentric model.
The survey highlighted scientific superstitions among Russians and was released as President Medvedev called for a revival of the lunar and deep space programs that brought Russia out of the industrial age and into the space age decades ago.
The same survey also found 55 percent of Russians believe that radioactivity is a human invention, which betrays a misunderstanding of how X-Rays work.
A further 29 percent also believe humans lived in the era of dinosaurs, much like the Flintstones. The survey found women more likely (though it does not specify by how much) to believe in such superstitions than men.
The survey was conducted in January among 1,600 people in different regions with a 3.4% margin of error. Discounting the fact that some of them could’ve been trolls, a large percentage of those who participated in the survey are either old and senile, or completely ignorant.
“Sun comes up, sun goes down. Never a miscommunication.” Bill O’Reilly would have a lot in common with these uneducated Russians.
www.popjolly.com/a-third-of-russians-believe-the-sun-revolves-around-the-earth-1774