{"id":191,"date":"2007-04-07T15:28:28","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T19:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=191"},"modified":"2008-08-05T12:48:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T16:48:21","slug":"another-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Another poll"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another poll, this most recent one by Newsweek<\/a>, shows a lack of support\/understanding for real-life, established science. Questions 12 and 13 ask the tired old questions of evolution.<\/p>\n

Personally, I’m tired of these polls as they don’t tell us anything we haven’t been told over and over again before. I also wonder why evolution, out of the zillion other possible subjects out there that cause a stir and are related in some way to religion, is always in the polls. Except for the evolution brush fires that pop up here and there, do people really think about evolution all that much? Do they think about it at all? Do questions 12 and 13 serve any real use? Other than pointing out how stuck in a rut the overall American population is when it comes to science, what does the same old question tell us?<\/p>\n

I wouldn’t mind seeing some other science subjects polled and then held up beside the evolution results. Do you accept that light from distant stars takes one heck of a long time to reach us here on Earth?\u00c2\u00a0Do you accept that the Earth goes around the sun? Do you accept the germ theory of disease? Throw a few questions like that out there and see what sticks.<\/p>\n

Heck, I think a question asking people to choose a correct definition for evolution would add some value to the polls. Do people understand what it is they don’t accept?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another poll, this most recent one by Newsweek, shows a lack of support\/understanding for real-life, established science. Questions 12 and 13 ask the tired old questions of evolution. Personally, I’m tired of these polls as they don’t tell us … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-35","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":220,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=220","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":0},"title":"Another poll about evolution","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Yet another poll featuring opinions on evolution is trotted out to sell newspapers. As I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve mentioned before, these polls are useless and annoying. They do spotlight a stunning ignorance of basic, accepted science, but they have nothing of value to add to the overall discussion. As a matter of fact,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Analysis\/Commentary"","block_context":{"text":"Analysis\/Commentary","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=4"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":186,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=186","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":1},"title":"What Minnesota went through","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday I posted about Cheri Yecke's desire to be Florida education commissioner. A commenter at Pharyngula reminded me of a post done a few years back at our old blog site about Minnesota's fight over the state science standards when Yecke was there. 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