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Re: careless editing



On 8/22/06, Scott <hmwh@together.net> wrote:

This much ignorance I find difficult to credit. If I showed a picture of a
saber-toothed cat to 100 people, asking, "What's this?" I would expect zero
responses of "It's a dinosaur." Has anyone any data?

I have intelligent and otherwise well-educated friends around my age (29) who, before I told them otherwise, thought that not only saber-toothed cats, but even trilobites were dinosaurs. -- T. Michael Keesey The Dinosauricon: http://dino.lm.com Parry & Carney: http://parryandcarney.com