In London a third of primary school children believe that Albert Einstein is a reality TV star and one-fourth of them think Stephen Hawking is a hairdresser, a new study has found.
However, 68% were correctly able to identify Mark Zuckerberg as the founder of social networking site Facebook. As many as 29% kids think they have recently seen Einstein, who died in 1955, on reality TV shows like The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent.
According to 22% of eight year olds, physicist Stephen Hawking is a hairdresser, the ‘Daily Mail’ reported in UK. More than a third of the school children aged 11 to 14 did not know that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, despite it featuring on their school curriculum.
Meanwhile, 6% thought X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos created penicillin while a million children believe chart-topping rapper Professor Green is a real academic.Furthermore, a confused 35% of five year olds think London mayor Boris Johnson discovered gravity with one in five primary school children believing that England and Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney is a scientist.
Electric light bulb inventor Thomas Edison was credited with creating Facebook by 22% of seven year olds. And despite spending an average of 17 hours and 34 minutes in front a TV each week, 45% did not know it was invented by John Logie Baird, this was found by the poll conducted by a home appliances firm.
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