Posted on 02/19/2014 4:32:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Earth circles the sun once every year, but a startling 26% of Americans get this simple fact backward. They think that the sun orbits around the Earth. This shocking finding comes from a survey of more than 2,200 people in the United States, conducted by the National Science Foundation in 2012. The survey, done every two years, tests the public's knowledge of basic facts in the physical and biological sciences.
The survey is included in a major federal report, Science and Engineering Indicators, prepared for the president and Congress.
In 2012, Americans answered an average of 5.8 out of the survey's 9 questions correctly. That's a score of 65% — barely a passing grade.
All of the questions on the survey are listed below. Take the quiz, then see how you compare to your fellow compatriots.
Questions:
1. The center of the Earth is very hot. True or false?
2. The continents have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move. True or false?
3. Does the Earth go around the sun, or does the sun go around the Earth?
4. All radioactivity is man-made. True or false?
5. Electrons are smaller than atoms. True or false?
6. Lasers work by focusing sound waves. True or false?
7. The universe began with a huge explosion. True or false?
8. It's the father's gene that decides whether the baby is a boy or girl. True or false?
9. Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria. True or false?
10. Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals. True or false?
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No challenge at all but look at the low percentages of right answers on some of them. Hoo boy!
Now that's funny, I don't care WHO ya are!
Thank you. That question had my head spinning. It seemed to be asking if a male child only had genes from the father.
Nope, I got those right.
just happened. I don't know if you forgot the /s tag or if you are an idiot.
So that’s how we got Obama?
The NEA feels no responsibility or shame, one suspects.
Shame? It’s not their fault, it’s just cause we stingy white people only give them $16K/seat/year. You can’t expect them to get anything done on that. [/s if really necessary]
Funny. When did you move to San Franscisco?
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Yep!
Male and female globs of jelly?
But perhaps a fortunate one. All three belong in the same category so far as I can tell. Eight and three are flawed in other ways, as pointed out elsewhere on the thread. Not a very good test.
“/s” not needed, at least for me. It’s the equivalent of a smilie; and good writers (you included) do not need them.
Peanut butter and jelly makes more sense. But getting them together is the question.
10. Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals. True or false?
Can someone explain to me how 2 sexes evolved?
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Read The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. There is an easy to understand explanation in the book. It happened a long time before Humans came around so our ancestors already had two sexes. Many animals still reproduce asexually, I’m glad we’re not one of them.
Well, I got 100% correct. Yet, questions 7 & 10 are only current scientific belief, as to creation of the universe and the beginnings of the human race.
I figured that those two required a PC answer, and so that is what I gave.
Our whole universerse was in a hot dense state.
Then nearly 14 million years ago expansion started,
Wait
The earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool
neanderthals developed tools
We built a wall, we built the pyramid.
Math science history, unraveling the mystery
It all started with a big bang
BANG!
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