The answer often depends on how the question is phrased, doesn't it? Instead of asking one of my girl students, "Do you think that, because of the periodic changes in the world's climate, the sun has risen in the west at least a couple of times in past ages?," I asked her, "Do you think the sun rises in the west every 20 years or so or every 4, 457 years?" She answered, "Every 4,457 years," because, I assume, that would mean that she wouldn't have to worry too soon after graduation about the implications of the sun's action. I liked isolating the airheads in the classroom. They thought I was picking on them. Ancient people worshipped the sun.
-Old Doc
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