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Related: About this forumAmerican adults get a "D" in science
So says the Pew Research Center, which issued a report Thursday on the state of the nations knowledge regarding some basic scientific facts.
The public opinion and research organization quizzed a representative sample of U.S. adults on geology, physics and astronomy, among other topics. Out of 12 questions, the test-takers answered 7.9 correctly, on average. Thats a score of 66%.
Only 6% of the 3,278 test-takers answered all 12 questions correctly. Twenty-six percent missed only one or two questions, and an additional 27% missed three or four.
At the other end of the spectrum, only 1% of those surveyed missed 11 of the questions, 2% missed 10 and 3% missed nine. (Want to see how you'd fare? Take the quiz here.)
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-science-quiz-americans-pew-20150909-story.html
The public opinion and research organization quizzed a representative sample of U.S. adults on geology, physics and astronomy, among other topics. Out of 12 questions, the test-takers answered 7.9 correctly, on average. Thats a score of 66%.
Only 6% of the 3,278 test-takers answered all 12 questions correctly. Twenty-six percent missed only one or two questions, and an additional 27% missed three or four.
At the other end of the spectrum, only 1% of those surveyed missed 11 of the questions, 2% missed 10 and 3% missed nine. (Want to see how you'd fare? Take the quiz here.)
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-science-quiz-americans-pew-20150909-story.html
Note: if you want to take the test, don't read the rest of the LA Times article; it gives away some of the answers.
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American adults get a "D" in science (Original Post)
progressoid
Sep 2015
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cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)1. Scored 100% - Pretty Easy Test
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Staph
(6,245 posts)2. 11 out of 12
The boiling water question was my nemesis.
Kaleva
(36,147 posts)3. 11 out of 12 for me
"You scored better than 82% of the public, below 6% and the same as 12%."
Might of scored 100% had I not graduated from high school with a D+ average.
tiger_lily99
(20 posts)4. 11 out of 12
Missed the magnifying glass question.
Silent3
(15,018 posts)5. 12 out of 12 for me n/t
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)6. Also 12 out of 12
jwirr
(39,215 posts)7. Nor so good but that is to be expected. I am 73 years
old and have never been interested in studying science. Plus what I did know has changed a great deal over the ages - the knowledge is more.
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)8. 12 of 12. M.S. in math though :p