Re: Age of Earth according to some Americans
- From: "Robert J. Kolker" <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:39:27 -0500
Ye Old One wrote:
>
> I find that in the UK more people don't understand that there is more
> than one "average" then there are people who don't accept evolution :)
I was in error, by the way. The median by definition must fall right in
the middle of the array of values. In the case of a gaussian
distribution the mean, the mode and the median are all equal because of
the symmetry of the distribution.
It is interesting to note that there is a sizable percentage of the
British population that is undereducated or miseducated in matters of
science and critical thinking. It is not exclusively an American malady.
For historic reasons the Fundie minority (it is a minority) seems louder
and more influential than it really is. The public schools, disgusting
as they are, have been maintained as a secular institution sinces the
days of Horace Mann over 150 years ago.
Bob Kolker
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