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Americans beat the world at Science literacy

blog.sciam.com — Finally, the U.S. is ahead of the Japanese and Europeans by at least one measure of our overall knowledge of science.

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  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Which should we suck first?

    This ... "28 percent literacy means that 72 percent of Americans aren't literate enough to understand the average science story in a newspaper. But according to Duncan, it gets worse:"

    Or this .... "The acceptance of evolution is lower in the United States than in Japan or Europe, largely because of widespread fundamentalism and the politicization of science in the United States."

  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0suck it, from an American aerospace engineer

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