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While more than 70% of the people the NSF surveyed knew that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around, and that humans and dinosaurs did not coexist, only 16% could define the Internet and only 13% could accurately describe a molecule. At least those numbers are going up, the report’s authors noted diplomatically–five years ago, only 11% could define the Internet and only 9% could describe a molecule. Well-Informed Citizens Increasingly Rare in Information Age“>whoa.