{"id":4799,"date":"2020-08-30T07:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T11:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/?page_id=4799"},"modified":"2021-01-28T18:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T23:23:04","slug":"scientific-literacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/science-or-superstition\/chapter-1\/1-4\/scientific-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#128203; Scientific Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the face of science denial about major issues that face us all (climate change, environmental meltdown, vaccine safety, the Corona virus, etc.) it is important to figure out what causes so many otherwise well-educated people to ignore, undervalue or attack scientific findings. The Pew Research Center does periodic surveys of Americans&#8217; scientific literacy as part of an attempt to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See how you do on their scientific literacy test:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/science\/quiz\/science-knowledge-quiz\/\">Quiz: How much do you know about science?<\/a><\/h4><p>Test your knowledge of science facts and applications of scientific principles by taking our 11-question quiz, then compare your answers to the average American and across demographic groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And read here about what these results might and might not mean:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/americans-are-smart-about-science\/\">Americans Are Smart About Science<\/a><\/h4><p>Hey, didja hear about those scientifically illiterate Americans? People so dumb, they think the sun revolves around the Earth? People who can&#8217;t pass a quiz of basic science facts? People who are getting dumber and whose lack of knowledge leads them to have misguided opinions about science policy?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of science denial about major issues that face us all (climate change, environmental meltdown, vaccine safety, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4372,"menu_order":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4799","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4800,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4799\/revisions\/4800"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6worlds.net\/science-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}