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Re: [Phys-l] Scientific Literacy in America



Where's the questionnaire? I didn't read closely enuff?

bc curious


On 2008, Mar 13, , at 16:22, Richard Hake wrote:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[Jon Miller
<http://polisci.msu.edu/people/miller.htm> - for
a news report see Dean (2005)]. . .. . . . . has
developed a continually updated core set of
questions used since 1988 in studies of adults in
most industrial nations. A score of 70 on these
tests represents sufficient knowledge to
understand science and technology stories in the
daily newspapers, while a person scoring much
below 70 would have a difficult time making sense
of current debates about global warming,
embryonic stem cells, etc. Thus, a score of 70
or more marks a person as "scientifically
literate."