Chris- Interesting you'd mention the "Silent Majority". How times have changed! Does that mean we've come full circle or we are on the opposite side of it? Seems to me that those who are silent now may be expressing (now who said it!), "It's the economy, stupid." :) Are we all following the flack coming out of the Australian "support" for escalation (pardon my retreat to language I'm sure the current adminstration would object to). :)
A sincere thank you, Chris, for posting the links. I'm not covering that this term but a colleague can really use those in class this week. :) Tim _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Psychology Albertson College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems -----Original Message----- From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun 2/11/2007 4:19 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] RE: BBC NEWS | Education | Whose classroom curriculum is it? Dear John, Wasn't the "silent majority" argument last used by Nixon, just before he was forced from office? :-) To the numbers: According to an October 2005 poll, a majority (515) of American reject evolution. Only 15% support it. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/22/opinion/polls/main965223.shtml According to a March 2006 poll, 69% of Americans favor teaching "intelligent design." 21% favor teaching evolutionary theory only. http://www.physorg.com/news11504.html Numbers like these are seen nowhere else in the developed world. According to an Augsut 2006 international poll, only Turkey had a lower pct. of the population believing that evolution is true (and that poll showed an uncharacteristically high US figure of 40%). Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, France, Japan, UK, Norway, Belgium, Spain, and Germany all had figures of 80% or higher (if I read the graph correctly). http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060819_evo_rank.html Global Warming is a little better. As of Nov 2005, 77% think it is occuring (the other 23% just don't believe the raw data, I guess). Of those who believe it is occurring, 46% think it is caused by humans (which is only 35% of the popluation as whole). http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175070,00.html Regards, -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-5115 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo ====================================== John Kulig wrote: > I'd wager a bet that the % of people who ignore evolution and global > warming is reasonably comparable between the UK and the US (my ego is > not involved in such a bet, btw). The right-wingers in the US, in > recent years, have exterted far more political influence than you'd > expect based on the polls. The "genius" of the right wing is in > mobilizing troops, and controlling the debate, and the money. Most > people in the US for instance, support Roe vs Wade, yet the right wing > is opposed, yet they maintained control of the US congress and the > White House in recent years. Same is probably true of environmental > issues (I don't have the data). The fact the right-wing wages such a > vigorous battle against political correctness is because PC has alot > of support. Even now, after such a resonding victory for the > Democrats, they are tip-toeing around the war issue. They can't even > pass a non-binding resolution against the war. But, these are my > perceptions; I'd like to see the data. As Will Rogers once quipped "I > don't belong to any organized political party. I'm a Democrat" > > ----------------------------- > John W. Kulig > Professor of Psychology > Director, Psychology Honors > Plymouth State University > Plymouth NH 03264 > ----------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:23 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIP > Subject: [tips] BBC NEWS | Education | Whose classroom curriculum is it? > > Interesting. The US isn't the only country in the developed world > arguing about what should be taught in publc schools. Of course, the > nature of the debate is rather different in England. Global warming is > considered "basic" material there, rather than suspicious lefty stuff, > and there is no inclination to dump evolutionary theory at all. > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6347263.stm > Chris > -- > > Christopher D. Green > > Department of Psychology > > York University > > Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 > > Canada > > > > 416-736-5115 ex. 66164 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.yorku.ca/christo > > ====================================== > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription go to: > http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english > --- > To make changes to your subscription go to: > http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
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