Sep212009
Take the science knowledge quiz
Filed under General by david brooks at 12:53 pm
The Pew Research Center has a science knowledge quiz online (here it is) - 12 questions, ranging from tectonic plates to antibiotics to astronomy. If you’re a GraniteGeek regular, you’d better get 100 on this pretty easy test, as did 10 percent of the 1,005 randomly samples adults who took it.*
The quiz is “part of a larger study of attitudes about science in the U.S.,” which you can read here. The study basically says people like science but don’t know much about it, while scientists are pissed that the media doesn’t report their news more accurately and the public doesn’t support their research more.
As a side note, I created a similar general-science-knowledge quiz years ago for the Telegraph’s science section, back when we had a science section, and one of the questions I wrote is the same. If you’ve taken the quiz, that question follows the double-asterisk.**
* Yes, I did. Whew!
** Which is bigger, an electron or an atom? I followed it up with some jokey versions: “Which is bigger, a quark or an lawyer’s heart? Which is longer, a nanosecond or a reporter’s attention span?”
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