Are you scientifically literate?

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Are you scientifically literate? Take our quiz
You may have an opinion on climate change, evolution education, stem-cell research, and science funding. But do you have the facts to back up your opinion? This quiz will test your basic scientific literacy.

50 multiple choice questions.

Some of these are gimmes. Some of them are more math then

Comments

[harro_der]

32 correct... I have never studied physics and I'm not a big math person though :3 Just glad I got all the biology ones right since my major was animal science!

[ravewalker]

48/50 but I suppose I do study physics and hated most of biology.

[skellington1]

38, so so-so. It seems that this is more a test of how much you remember from basic courses than actual scientific literacy, though -- it'd be interesting to see whether it's even possible to make a decent quiz to measure that, since at root it requires critical thinking, not fact regurgitation.

Going by errors and assumptions commonly seen in internet debates, I'd suggests questions on the definition of 'theory' or the purpose of a control group -- something about process, which is actually important when reading new articles and studies (hence literacy) rather than fact.

[diamond_dust06]

43/50, but only got physics questions wrong (and a couple of astronomy) which I never liked much, anyway, so good on me.

[asweetdownfall]

This is awesome :D

And I got a 49/50. FU, Physics. -___-