Simply Fucking Sad.....

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If you read the entire article, it later states that EU members polled did even worse with that question than Americans did.

I've just lost faith in humanity in general now.

As alarming as some of those deficits in science knowledge might appear, Americans fared better on several of the questions than similar, but older surveys of their Chinese and European counterparts.

Only 66 percent of people in a 2005 European Union poll answered the basic astronomy answer correctly. However, both China and the EU fared significantly better (66 percent and 70 percent, respectively) on the question about human evolution.