Breakfast Granola for 3/16/9

American Adults Flunk Basic Science

Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun.

Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time.

Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth's surface that is covered with water.

Only 21% of adults answered all three questions correctly.

I recall being able to answer 2/3 of the questions in elementary school. The Flintstones screwed me up on human/dinosaur coexistence for a little while, but Jurassic Park (the book, not the POS movie) cemented it in my mind.

Meanwhile...um, yeah. Don't be dumb.