sun orbits earth

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" Morris Berman quotes a 2006 survey that showed some 20% of the U.S. population believed that
the sun revolves around the earth rather than vice-versa, while a further 9% claimed not to know."
(In another survey in 2014, 25% got it wrong.)

I live in Texas and I bet it's 35% down here.

Not sure there's much discussion to be had on this, but I'm throwing it up anyway.

But how many per-cent of Americans actually need that information for their jobs?
Probably none. But then, I remember reading about how science education is super important, not just in terms of teaching the populace of the scientific method, but of establishing a common culture, and of assuring that the people would be informed when it comes to democratic policy making (say, funding astronomical research, or, if this were on the issue of evolution, of supporting evolutionary research and education; oh, and I think the reading was from Max Weber). So I suppose that bit's out of the way.