The Copernican revolution wasn't as clear-cut as it seems in hindsight. Great essay argues that it was reasonable to reject heliocentrism at the time:https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/JAAHjm4iZ2j5Exfo2/the-copernican-revolution-from-the-inside …
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I'm not sure who this is directed at, but I didn't assert that average people would know what it is or should. I just thought the implication you drew from it wasn't just wrong for conceptual reasons but also physical ones.
. @RamiroHumSah wrote: "The note is a very bad joke, it is exaggeratedly pedantic to expect the average person to explain the concept of general covariance by answering such a simple question." Aside from being insulting, it also badly misreads what I very plainly wrote.
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In the post I wrote "Of course, I don't think too many of the survey respondents were arguing on the basis of general covariance". I make similar statements in the comments. So, no, I don't expect average people will know general covariance.
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