ANSWER: PROBABLY NOT. Did people confuse ‘astronomy’ with ‘astrology’ in the NSF study? “I followed up Landers’ small study with one of my own, trying to correct for some of the deficiencies in his study. In my sample of 108 respondents, the evidence suggests that probably only one of the 108 respondents was confusing astronomy for astrology. Given that, I would say that there is no reason to believe that the results of the NSF/GSS study reflect a substantial conflation of astrology with astronomy.”

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