I'd be willing to be that 50% of those surveyed were creationists.
The same sort of Americans that believe "The Flintstones" is a documentary.
I like the convenience of roasted dinosaur and microwaved vegetables. Ooo and gravy, I do like gravy.
I keep one in my backyard, better even than a goat for brush control!
Well, birds are descendants of one type of dinosaur, so they're pretty much right.
Dinosaurs were NOT cold blooded reptiles, reptiles never evolve feathers, and when feathers first developed they were not easily distinguishable from hair, but in the next stages started doing the ultimate split end thing that created downy feathers that are obviously useful for regulating body heat, it took millions of years from then to develop feathers that helped them not fall as fast, and a few more million to develop true flight feathers.
I'm guessing that 50% of the dumbnesses on this planet aren't as dumb as we think, or rather we aren't that much smarter than the 50% we keep looking down on.
Intelligence is decreased in the presence of a competitive attitude, and an open curious attitude with some recognition of ones own limitations is more of what intelligence actually is than the collection of isolated facts one has collected during the course of your life.