(I only know a few Russians, but I don't think they fall under this category.--jef)
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Redorbit.com - Friday, 11 February 2011
A spokeswoman for state pollster VsTIOM said on Friday that one in every three Russians believe the sun revolves around the Earth.
A survey released this week said that 32 percent of Russians believed the Earth was the center of the Solar system, 55 percent believe that all radioactivity is man-made and 29 percent believe the first humans lived when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth.
"It's really quite amazing," spokeswoman Olga Kamenchuk said of the survey that polled 1,600 people across Russia's regions in January, with a 3.4-percent margin of error.
"All of them (the questions) were absolutely obvious... the data speaks of the low levels of education in the country."
However, she said people forget what they have been taught in school.
"I wonder whether our colleagues in other countries would find any different," Kamenchuk told Reuters.
The study also found that women were more likely to believe the scientific fallacies than men.
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