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I'd like to see the raw results of the survey, especially the questions asked. (But not so much so that I am actually going to look up their sources.) I have a hard time believing that 33% of US adults actually don't think that the earth goes around the sun once a year. What seems most likely to me is that these questions were part of a lengthy survey, and were cherry picked because of their responses. Alternatively, a lengthy survey may have led to false responses. Some of these are less surprising. But I'd estimate with only 0.2 probability that at least 33% of US adults actually disagree that the earth goes around the sun once a year. I might assign probability of 0.15 that at least 49% of US adults actually believe that tomatoes don't have genes.
I would assume most of them think the Earth goes around the Sun once per day. Note that the story taught in school often goes: "We used to think the Sun went around the Earth, but after Galileo we know that the Earth goes around the Sun". But the first statement was an explanation for the appearance of the sun going across the sky, so one would assume the second was as well.