Some People Will Believe Anything
Friday, July 6th, 2007I ran across two interesting studies today. The first one was a poll from Newsweek that discovered that only 26% of Americans approve of the job that Bush is doing:
2. Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?
Approve Disapprove Don’t Know Current Total 26% 65% 9
I thought that number seemed awful high considering, well, everything he has done. Then I ran across this little gem in the New York Times and suddenly the world made sense again:
One adult American in five thinks the Sun revolves around the Earth, an idea science had abandoned by the 17th century.
I’d be willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that if you tried to make a venn diagram using the group of people who think Bush is doing a good job and the group of people who think the Earth revolves around the Sun you would just end up with a circle.