American adults get a "D" in science

[progressoid]

So says the Pew Research Center, which issued a report Thursday on the state of the nation’s knowledge regarding some basic scientific facts.

The public opinion and research organization quizzed a representative sample of U.S. adults on geology, physics and astronomy, among other topics. Out of 12 questions, the test-takers answered 7.9 correctly, on average. That’s a score of 66%.

Only 6% of the 3,278 test-takers answered all 12 questions correctly. Twenty-six percent missed only one or two questions, and an additional 27% missed three or four.


At the other end of the spectrum, only 1% of those surveyed missed 11 of the questions, 2% missed 10 and 3% missed nine. (Want to see how you'd fare? Take the quiz here.)

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-science-quiz-americans-pew-20150909-story.html

Note: if you want to take the test, don't read the rest of the LA Times article; it gives away some of the answers.

[cantbeserious]

1. Scored 100% - Pretty Easy Test

eom

[Staph]

2. 11 out of 12

The boiling water question was my nemesis.

[Kaleva]

3. 11 out of 12 for me

"You scored better than 82% of the public, below 6% and the same as 12%."

Might of scored 100% had I not graduated from high school with a D+ average.

[tiger_lily99]

4. 11 out of 12

Missed the magnifying glass question.

[Silent3]

5. 12 out of 12 for me n/t

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

6. Also 12 out of 12

[jwirr]

7. Nor so good but that is to be expected. I am 73 years

old and have never been interested in studying science. Plus what I did know has changed a great deal over the ages - the knowledge is more.

[MillennialDem]

8. 12 of 12. M.S. in math though :p