1 in 4 Britons.....

[chaggle]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5851435/Apollo-11-hoax-one-in-four-people-do-not-believe-in-moon-landing.html


Apollo 11 hoax: one in four people do not believe in moon landing

Eleven of the 1009 people surveyed thought Buzz Lightyear was the first person on the Moon.
The Toy Story film character was named alongside Louis Armstrong. Eight of those taking part thought the late jazz musician made the first moon walk.

:cheesy:


Leading space scientist Professor John Zarnecki, from the Open University, said: "I think it would have been a far greater achievement to have mocked the whole thing up AND to have kept it quiet for four decades.
"If one in four Britons today don't believe the moon landings ever happened, then I'm afraid that says a lot about one in four Britons. And what it says isn't very complimentary."

[DrS]

Oh god how depressing. >:-)

I was reading the other day that (from memory) a new Science GCSE had been slated by lecturers who felt that it did not give pupils any sort of chance to get onto University courses, or at least no chance of getting on and finding themselves equipped to deal with it.

I seem to remember a while ago there was a survey that showed a shocking percentage of people believed the Sun went around the Earth. If they are dumbing down science teaching even further .... :undecided:

[Croydon Bob]

The story is in a newspaper that, just three days earlier, ran a story giving ten reasons why the moon landings were faked. Without seeing the E&T magazine source material for the (somewhat contradictory) statistics that they quote this can fairly safely be dismissed as just more bollocks.

[polomint38]

Eleven of the 1009 people surveyed thought Buzz Lightyear was the first person on the Moon.
The Toy Story film character was named alongside Louis Armstrong. Eight of those taking part thought the late jazz musician made the first moon walk.

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff73/Polomint38/apollo11.png

The crew of Apollo 11 at the party after returning.

Louis Armstrong, Buzz Lightyear and Michael Collins. :cheesy:

[chaggle]

;D;D

[Lord Muck oGentry]

100% of those surveyed who did not believe in the Moon Landings strongly agreed with the statement " It is very, very naughty to take the piss out of opinion pollsters and I would never do it, so help me, guv'nor, you've got the wrong geezer, you 'ave. 'Ere, what you trying to say, then? " *
















* I made that bit up. Sorry.

[Croydon Bob]

Louis Armstrong, Buzz Lightyear and Michael Collins. :cheesy:

Shirley shome mishtake? You mean Michelle Collins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Collins) .

[Graham Lappin]

I seem to remember a while ago there was a survey that showed a shocking percentage of people believed the Sun went around the Earth

It says so in the Bible:

"Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel: Sun, stand still over Gibeon; and Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon. So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped"

Joshusa 10:12-14

[TAP]

The story is in a newspaper that, just three days earlier, ran a story giving ten reasons why the moon landings were faked. Without seeing the E&T magazine source material for the (somewhat contradictory) statistics that they quote this can fairly safely be dismissed as just more bollocks.

Here here.

I think it's a great shame that the media has to keep telling the public how stupid we are. A classic example is the poll, "How many moons does the Earth have?" where a minority of people got the answer right. I can't remember the exact statistic and I don't care. It's the sort of thing that people think is a trick question, and for good reasons.

Another popular one is, "People are terrible at probability. They gamble!" To live in this world you have to have a remarkable intuition for probability. However, whatever flaws there are in our intuition will be exploited by gambling machines; that is their purpose! If we were better at probability, the gambling machines would be different. But they would still exist and people would still use them.

Apart from which, just because you can't beat the house doesn't mean you can't beat other gamblers. More people than you'd think do understand how to beat the other gamblers by stealing their jackpot, even though the house always wins even more. From horse racing to roulette (yes roulette!), if they don't get caught a good statistician can make a steady profit.

I won't tell you how. I want to beat y'all!

[Mulder]

I won't tell you how. I want to beat y'all!

Anything like this (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327202.600-whats-luck-got-to-do-with-it-the-math-of-gambling.html?full=true)?