Yes.... and I find it surprising that these concepts of the tilted earth orbiting the Sun do not take logical root in what should otherwisw be fertile soil.
The demonstrations in physical science class are pretty basic concepts.
Must be too busy gigling with the girlfriends or writing notes.
Have you ever seen Jay Leno's " Jaywalking " ?
I used to think these people were actors just making a buck.
But.....they could be for real. Scary, isn't it?
Best regards, Dan

Every time I think I've figured out just how ignorant people are, I'm unpleasantly surprised to find out they're even worse.

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People say all kinds of silly things. I try to think of a way to make money from them, for example, if they say an event is absolutely impossible, I ask them if they'd like to insure me for one million dollars against this impossible event. Usually they then start to maintain that while the event is absolutely impossible, there is a chance it could happen

But if these people are willing to put up money to build a museum, does that mean they really believe it, or does it just mean they're willing to make money from the people who really believe it?

Hi,
You make an excellent point. Maybe it is just a monument to con artists
everywhere!! It certainly reflects poorly on the chumps who actually believe
that dinosaurs ran around only 5000 years ago. What rubbish.
Like I said: Don't let such people work on your brakes.
Best regards, Dan

A friend of mine put it better than I've ever been able to. Take what you consider to be "average" intelligence, then realize that by definition, most people fall below that mark.

Jim.

I thought the scoop was that half of the people were below average.
Welcome to the forum.

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Yes and when you tell some that our sun is a star, they do not believe you.

Yes Disinfo, I worded that wrong. Meant to say half not most. Thanks for the greeting!

Jim.

Half the people are above-average, which makes the below-average people look bad

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It's true,and I read the article years ago.

Funny things is, way more than half the people you meet in everyday life are above average in intelligence -- because a large portion of those on the way-low end of the scale are institutionalized. Society hides part of the curve.

Another interesting fun-with-statistics item I was reminded of yesterday: most people have an above-average number of legs -- arithmetic average, that is. There are too few with more than 2 legs to offset the fair number with less than 2.

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Is it really so hard to believe that the majority of people in the world are just plain ignorant of facts which don't directly impinge upon their daily trek through the rat maze?

Its not that they're stupid or otherwise mentally deficient, its simply that those particular pieces of information are, in a practical sense, utterly irrelevant to them. They could care less about the orbit of the Earth or the orbit of an electron, its pointless data. They don't see the need to know, so there's no effort to learn it. To the average Joe/Jane on the street, knowing the first thing about the world beyond the atmosphere is nothing more than trivia at best.

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The weirdest stories are often true. Lets give it the benefit of doubt.

I had a friend who didn't know that dinosaurs were dead. On the other hand, I met an eight-year old who knew the whole story of Lowell, the canali and how he was proven wrong.

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