What revolves around the earth?

[luckyme]

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France is approaching 50% atheist/agnositc, as opposed to less than 10% in the U.S. Need we look any further for the root of their ignorance?


Seriously, though, I wonder if there was something about the way the question was phrased in French that would make it confusing. 58% seems shockingly high.

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There's several factors at play. Multiple choice being one of them. Everyone know that all the objects named are involved in orbiting and if you asked, "Does the moon orbit the earth" you'd get a much higher correct response.

For most on here this may sound strange but people with poorer spatial visualization capability this becomes a merely verbal question. They don't "see" the solar system in 3D like others do when it's mentioned, they don't "see" it at all actually. for them the question could well be of the " who sailed farther, columbus or magellan." type.

Try it as presented on non-SMP types, Oprah watchers, Survivor addicts, could be interesting because you may be thinking " who could get that wrong."

luckyme

[chezlaw]

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France is approaching 50% atheist/agnositc, as opposed to less than 10% in the U.S. Need we look any further for the root of their ignorance?


Seriously, though, I wonder if there was something about the way the question was phrased in French that would make it confusing. 58% seems shockingly high.

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maybe they just thought **** him. If he don't know that he deserves to lose.

chez

[vhawk01]

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I will once again point out that Leno's Jay Walking bit would not be funny if they showed all 75 hours of footage they took in order to find those retards

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[Limesparks]

maybe they were confused by the fact that the moon doesnt revolve around the earth

they revolve about their common center of mass final answer

[Nielsio]

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maybe they were confused by the fact that the moon doesnt revolve around the earth

they revolve about their common center of mass final answer

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Actually all answers were correct because it's all relative and everything revolves around everything, but obviously the intent of the question was A.

[DougShrapnel]

I'm pretty sure the correct answer is tout le reste
(everything else). People are dumb.

[andyfox]

What difference does it make if the average person knows the answer or not?

[SNOWBALL]

so Wittgenstein was talking with a friend, and asked him "why did people used to think the sun revolved around the earth"
the friend answered "well obviously because it looked that way"
Wittgenstein countered "well, what would it have looked like had it looked like the earth revolved around the sun?"

[JayTee]

Is the translation correct? "What rotates around the Earth?"

[scorcher863]

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Is the translation correct? "What rotates around the Earth?"


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hmmm, the sun does rotate and it is located near the sun.