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Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.
If you do the math, that works out to 16.4 million misinformed, milk-drinking people. The equivalent of the population of Pennsylvania (and then some!) does not know that chocolate milk is milk, cocoa and sugar.
[...] For decades, observers in agriculture, nutrition and education have griped that many Americans are basically agriculturally illiterate. They don't know where food is grown, how it gets to stores — or even, in the case of chocolate milk, what's in it.
[...] Upton and other educators are quick to caution that these conclusions don't apply across the board. Studies have shown that people who live in agricultural communities tend to know a bit more about where their food comes from, as do people with higher education levels and household incomes.
[...] In some ways, this ignorance is perfectly logical. The writer and historian Ann Vileisis has argued that it developed in lockstep with the industrial food system.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @03:54AM (2 children)
There's no point in listing the confidence interval in a country that has no confidence in science at all. Doesn't matter how tight the confidence is, people still won't believe it because scientists haven't completely nailed down absolutely every possible angle, including the ones that Alex Jones just made up.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @04:18AM (1 child)
We see it here every day, intelligent people searching for reasons to disbelieve science. I'm all for critical thinking, but confirmation bias is also a real problem.
(Score: 2) by KGIII on Saturday June 17 2017, @05:05AM
I gotta go fishing in the morning(ish). Otherwise, that's a good effort to get a KGIII rant. I don't usually get angry, but the state of science education makes me angry.
However...
Do NOT think that my anger is only directed at one side of the political spectrum. Yeah, I'm gonna stop now, take my off-topic mod, and just go to sleep soon.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."