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Old 04-14-2010, 10:24 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
Why does the U.S. get a "FAIL" in science literacy?

Is a cover up by the government in the works to try and hide it?

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress....fic-illiteracy

From that Page: "Today’s issue of Science contains a news article (first pointed out to me by Matthew) about a clumsy (and now failed) attempt by the US’s National Science Board (NSB) to suppress a finding by a National Science Foundation (NSF) survey that Americans’ knowledge of evolution and cosmology remains poor, and well behind that of European and east Asian industrial nations. I am shocked and disconcerted that the NSB, the governing board of the NSF and official science advisers to the president and Congres, would do this. "

Have we become totally complacent and have lost our drive?

Here is some pretty detailed information from the National Science Foundation:

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind10/
Does it really matter that people don't know that information? I would think the details of cosmology are extraneous to most people's lives, and thus one of the first facts they forget (unused memories are lost the fastest).

If a piece of information has no relevance to someone's life, then it is just trivia. Why get worried over people not knowing it?
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