Can you determine the truth value of these statements correctly?
- The Earth goes around the sun.
- All radioactivity is man-made.
- Humans lived at the same time as the dinosaurs.
I don't know how they were worded in the surveys, but of course the answers are True, False, and False.
Trouble is:
Russians surveyed--
32% said Earth was the centre of the solar system.
55% said that all radioactivity is human-made.
29% said the first humans lived when dinosaurs were on Earth.
Americans (in different but similar surveys)--
72% said Earth goes around the sun.
63% knew there was radiation that was not man-made.
59% said dinosaurs and humans did not live at the same time.
That leaves a lot of people who don't know squat about basic science in both countries.
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