Yes, the survey is silly and perhaps a little mean. However there is a real trend of fear and distrust of education and facts that has been growing, and I do think that is a bad thing for everyone.
A significant percentage of people think college is a bad thing overall for the country. A significant percentage of people think the news media is a bad thing for the country. A lot of people will hear facts and flatly deny that they are true. I do think these are frightening trends for a representative democracy.
Someone upthread said that back when hardly anybody went to college that the US did just fine. But back then people didn’t think college was bad and facts were bad, and they didn’t have deep-rooted suspicions of highly educated people.
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government…”
-Thomas Jefferson