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Originally Posted by DixieGal
Getting back to the original post, it started me thinking about my inbred brain-dead in-laws. Throw 10 of them into a lake and you might barely have a combined educational level for 1 of them to graduate high school.
BUT... In the past few years since satellite TV made it out to the piney woods, get-togethers have changed. I overheard a pothead step nephew cousin talking about these strings that are really universes. They watch and discuss the space series, such as The Planet and The Universe. I doubt any of them could understand a chart about recessive or dominant genes, for instance, but they completely understand about evolutionary adaption to fill an ecelogic niche.
So they are well indoctrinated with popular science and have a pretty good grasp of things from watching documentary TV. So from my own observations, I would not consider this as failing to educate them about science.
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Very cool Dixie! What little TV I watch are those sorts of shows - National Geographic, Nature, Science, etc...