Only 66% of millennials firmly believe Earth is round, poll finds
A new survey has found that a third of young millennials in the U.S. aren’t convinced the Earth is actually round.
YouGov, a British market research firm, polled 8,215 adults in the United States to find out America's views on the shape of the Earth.
The question asked individuals to categorize their thoughts surrounding the shape of the Earth in the options below.
- I have always believed the earth is round
- I always thought the world is round, but more recently I am skeptical/have doubts
- I always thought the world is flat, but more recently I am skeptical/have doubts\
- I have always believed the world is flat
- Other/Not sure
Only 66 percent of people ages 18-24 answered that they “always believe the world is round.” Nine percent have doubts. Two percent truly believe the earth is flat and a disturbing 16 percent don't know what shape the earth is.
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Number 5 is the correct answer to this survey as the earth is not round, it's actually an oblate spheroid (a little flattened at the poles and bulging in the center).
Well, I'm glad that 7% were smart enough to choose #5 for their answer, because "oblate spheroid" (the correct answer) wasn't included as an option in this skewed survey.
Why so critical of Millennials? The Earth is obviously flat-- everybody knows that!
Many in the Millennial Generation ( early 1980s to early 2000s ) have earned the Stupid and Uneducated Awards for many reasons - among them are that they eat Tide Pods, snort condoms, and have little knowledge of core subjects that most of us mastered before high school graduation - literature (including grammar, spelling, punctuation), science (earth, biology, anatomy), geography, world history, US History, etc.
If you were to subtract the "not sure" responders from those who answered with number 5, you would have the percentage of participants who MIGHT have a genuine combination of intelligence and knowledge.
I see, so it wasn't enough for you to insult the intelligence of eggnostics, now you have to go after the poor flat-earthers too??
I'm not answering you until I get my donut.
Just curious-- how many Millennials have you actually known personally?
Or are your conclusions based soley on what you've read on the Internet?
And of course much of this is based on the assumption that that poll is accurate. (Its interesting that some of the people here who are commenting based on what the poll says (they are assuming the poll is accurate) are the very same people who constantly argue that polls aren't accurate-- that is to say they argue polls are unreliable when the poll being discussed does not support their political views!
Interesting, eh?
Personally I think Pew and Gallup are as accurate as one can hope for, but the whole process has too many variables that determine a result, and can be so easily manipulated by the questions that are asked, the demographics of those who are questioned....etc.
It's all a question of the mathematics of typology (as in which type of Donut do you want?)
My preference is a plain chocolate glazed cake donut. I don't think I can eat the one you pictured - I wouldn't know where to start and if I'd ever be able to finish it. Maybe Escher would know how to handle it.
My children, nephews, and nieces are millennials. I know dozens of their friends and co-workers. I hope that my answer satisfies your curiosity.
He wouldn't eat it, he would draw it's perception on a table in the basement that you'd have to go upstairs to get.
LOL - you got it.
So why does it seem that I am always walking uphill?
So why does it seem that I am always walking uphill?
Because while the surface is flat, its not level-- it is a flat surface, but its one that is tilted up at an angle. (That's simple physics!)
But if you;re lucky, on your return trip it will "be all downhill" (to coin a phrase
(Well, its either that..or the stuff that you're smoking
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If true this will bode poorly for the future of mankind, although we have managed to survive fifteen months of idiocy so far. Perhaps stupidity is the new smart.