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[popeyespappy]

I'll see if I can find it later today.

I read the article in question several years ago, and I'm having a hard time running it down. But the research in question was part of AAAS Project 2061. Their basic conclusion was students believe things that are wrong. Things like flat Earth, young Earth creationism and intelligent design. When a student believes the Earth is 6000 years old and evolution is crock of shit because that's what they are being told at home it is difficult to convince them they are wrong without addressing the flaws in the arguments for these things. We don't do that in the US public education system. We try to teach them why we think the Earth is 4.5 billion years old and what the evidence is for evolution, but it doesn't convince them because we don't teach them what is wrong with the crap they are learning elsewhere.