Holy Lack of Science Knowledge, Batman!
I was looking up an urban legend and stumbled upon this real clip of the French version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire during my snooping around:
The question was "What revolves around the Earth?" The choices were a) the Moon, b) the Sun, c) Mars, and d) Venus. The ignorance of the most basic scientific knowledge displayed not only by the contestant, but by the whole audience just dismayed me so much. Poor Copernicus is spinning in his grave.
The question was "What revolves around the Earth?" The choices were a) the Moon, b) the Sun, c) Mars, and d) Venus. The ignorance of the most basic scientific knowledge displayed not only by the contestant, but by the whole audience just dismayed me so much. Poor Copernicus is spinning in his grave.
Labels: television, video
posted by Brain Diva at 11:29 p.m.
2 Comments:
WOW.
I could not have been the host for that without saying, "Are you an idiot?"
Wow, wow, wow.
Blogging this.
That one person misses the question is dismaying, but I could dismiss it as being nervous... However, the majority of the studio audience was wrong! The host seemed to point out the wrongness of the audience's answer, albeit in a polite fashion, by saying, "Well, the vote is split quite evenly between Moon and Sun."
However, I am not surprised by these results. A lot of people lack basic scientific knowledge, in France and in North America.
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