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Webinar Follow-Up: Dinosaur Polls and More
A few questions came up during the webinar this afternoon that we didn’t have a chance to get to.
1. I talked about a poll of Texans about evolution. Someone asked for the source of the chart I showed. Here it is. I used this poll mainly to illustrate the fact that being a journalist who writes about evolution in the United States is an inherently interesting job. (You get really interesting commentsreally interesting comments, for example.) But I don’t think that Texas warrants singling out, judging by nationwide polls.
I also get annoyed when pollsters ask questions that demonstrate that they don’t understand evolution very well. Walk into a museum with a good dinosaur exhibit, and