In case the educated Americans among my readers were feeling bad, it might help to know that 89% of Brazil is as pig-ignorant about evolution as the majority of Americans. Oh well, at least 54% believe in a god-influenced form of teleogical evolution, de Chardin-style, which I can live with, I suppose.
UPDATE: I have to admit, though, that Chad Orzel has a good point about this, if you look at the statistics in America over time. And this open letter makes some good sense about how the responses of those surveyed may tell us more about a great schism dividing American culture than anything else.
UPDATE II: Comments by Alistair point out I’m being a little unfair. It’s not that Brazilians are “pig ignorant about evolution” but that they are, according to the study I linked to, pig-ignorant about how evolution education ought to be happening, like a majority of Americans are.