I was hoping this was a joke, but NPR posted this back on February 14, 2014 5:55 PM ET !

[Lady Freedom Returns]

1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says
By Scott Neumen
A quarter of Americans surveyed could not correctly answer that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, according to a report out Friday from the National Science Foundation.

The survey of 2,200 people in the United States was conducted by the NSF in 2012 and released on Friday at an annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago.

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.[/blockquote

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You may not want to read more @ http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/14/277058739/1-in-4-americans-think-the-sun-goes-around-the-earth-survey-says

[niyad]

1. which accounts for why pukes are in power.

[JaneyVee]

2. The collapse of western civilization.

[In_The_Wind]

3. Might I suggest someone wake the kids up before class.

[merrily]

4. We need an eyewitness. Anyone interview the Man in the Moon?

[diabeticman]

5. Kicking it for notice. We can thank the fundies who want to teach creationism

Galileo is flipping in his grave....


Welcome back Dark ages.

[appalachiablue]

6. K & R

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. Explains a lot, doesn't it? nt

[Ken Burch]

8. Do the same 1 in 4 think Galileo should still be doing time? n/t.

[project_bluebook]

9. Doesn't surprise me

Dumbing down Americans has been the goal of the far right for decades and they have surpassed their goal.

[burfman]

10. Just depends on your perspective....but neither answer is really correct....

Iif you are going to "get like Spock", neither answer is the correct one. The two bodies orbit around their common center of gravity, which though it is located inside the sun does not correspond to it's center. The center of gravity between the two bodies is also called a barycenter. Now if you are going to go with crude approximations you can say the Earth orbits the Sun, though if you are willing to make your life much more mathematically complicated, you can also make orbital predictions assuming the Earth is at the center - it's just a lot harder and a lot messier mathematically.

Check out Nasa's explanation of the barycenter and how they are used to find planets orbiting other stars....

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/barycenter/en/

Do you suppose that some of the answers of the NSF survey were influenced by people who are sick and tired of being asked to participate in surveys when they have better things to do in life?

Burfman......

[corkhead]

11. coincidentally it is the same percentage that think Fox News is "fair and balanced"