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NSF Report Biased, Expert Says: Americans Don’t Think Astrology is Scientific
The percentage of surveyed Americans who think astrology is not at all scientific. Note the downward trend since 2004.
Every Thanksgiving when I was home from college, at least one family member would turn to me and ask me how that astrology degree was going, or tell me about a new astrology article they read. It wasn’t that my family members really thought I was studying astrology or even believed astrology was scientific, it was just that they mixed up “astronomy” with “astrology.” In all fairness, for those who don’t follow either astrology or astronomy very closely, it might be considered an honest mistake.
So when a report from the National Science Foundation claimed a majority of young Americans believed astrology was scientific I had my doubts. But so did psychologist, Richard Landers from the University of Norfolk who performed a small second study and found the report to be biased.
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Read the rest of NSF Report Biased, Expert Says: Americans Don’t Think Astrology is Scientific (546 words)
© Shannon Hall for Universe Today, 2014. |
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/109477/nsf-report-biased-expert-says-americans-dont-think-astrology-is-scientific/
