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From:
"Robert ASF." <ra_forti@a...>
Date: Mon May 6, 2002 1:39
am
Subject: Re: [AAR_Skeptics] Interesting Article
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On Fri, 3 May 2002, Bruce Hutchinson wrote:
snip
> But at least half of Americans polled in a recent survey by the
> National Science Foundation did not know that Earth orbits the
> Sun, and that it takes a year to do so.
snip
What is funny about this example is that everyone knows about it
but most do not know that it is used as an example of how not to ask a
question. While taking a class on social research the proffessor asked us
all the question in class. (There was only 12 of us IIRC) not one of got
it correctly. We all knew what the answer was in the discussion (I hope
anyways :-)but the structure of the question confused us.
Just Thought I Should Mention It
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