Monday, September 21, 2009

Scientific Literacy


The Pew Research Center posed 12 incredibly easy general science questions to 1,005 randomly sampled adults.

Only 10% of the people polled could answer all 12 questions correctly.

Seriously?

This is really, really basic stuff that informs and drives many decisions on public policy. If you don't know the facts, how can you make decisions that affect other people?

You can take the poll yourself here.

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