In yesterday's Weekend Herald was a news item about a research study that was conducted over 2000 British school children aged 6 to 12 years old. According to the results of the study (for what little they're worth thanks to so few children surveyed) ...
17% thought that Darth Vader's Death Star from Star Wars is the furthest planet from Earth.
Some of the other "facts" they believed are ...
20% believed Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear was the first person to set foot on the moon rather than Neil Armstrong.
20% thought 24's Jack Bauer was the brains behind the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the British Houses of Parliament.
67% correctly identified malaria as Cheryal Cole's illness.
67% correctly identified David Beckham as being the most recent player to be dropped by Fabio Capello.
33% did not know Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. 9% believed it was TV personality Noel Edmonds and 20% thought it was Charles Darwin.
5% thought Christopher Columbus discovered liposuction, not America.
10% wrongly believe Rolf Harris painted the Mona Lisa.
It's great to see the schools keeping up the "good" work.
