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<blockquote data-quote="JohnR7" data-source="post: 26564990" data-attributes="member: 782"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">It has been said that only 25% of the people are scientificly literate. Do you think that is true?</span></strong></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px">The Internet Infidels Test of Scientific Literacy</span></strong></p><p></p><p>Answer each question with 'true' if what the sentence most normally means is typically true and 'false' if it is typically false. </p><p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>1. Scientists usually expect an experiment to turn out a certain way.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>2. Science only produces tentative conclusions that can change.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>3. Science has one uniform way of conducting research called the scientific method.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>4. Scientific theories are explanations and not facts.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>5. When being scientific one must have faith only in what is justified by empirical evidence.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>6. Science is just about the facts, not human interpretations of them.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>7. To be scientific one must conduct experiments.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>8. Scientific theories only change when new information becomes available.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>9. Scientists manipulate their experiments to produce particular results.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>10. Science proves facts true in a way that is definitive and final.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>11. An experiment can prove a theory true.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>12. Science is partly based on beliefs, assumptions, and the nonobservable.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>13. Imagination and creativity are used in all stages of scientific investigations.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>14. Scientific theories are just ideas about how something works.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>15. A scientific law is a theory that has been extensively and thoroughly confirmed.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>16. Scientists education, background, opinions, disciplinary focus, and basic guiding assumptions and philosophies influence their perception and interpretation of the available data.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>17. A scientific law will not change because it has been proven true.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>18. An accepted scientific theory is an hypothesis that has been confirmed by considerable evidence and has endured all attempts to disprove it.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>19. A scientific law describes relationships among observable phenomena but does not explain them.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>20. Science relies on deduction (x entails y) more than induction (x implies y).</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>21. Scientists invent explanations, models or theoretical entities.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>22. Scientists construct theories to guide further research.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>23. Scientists accept the existence of theoretical entities that have never been directly observed.</strong> </p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>24. Scientific laws are absolute or certain.</strong> </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JohnR7, post: 26564990, member: 782"] [B][SIZE=2]It has been said that only 25% of the people are scientificly literate. Do you think that is true?[/SIZE][/B] [B] [/B] [B][SIZE=3]The Internet Infidels Test of Scientific Literacy[/SIZE][/B] Answer each question with 'true' if what the sentence most normally means is typically true and 'false' if it is typically false. [INDENT] [B]1. Scientists usually expect an experiment to turn out a certain way.[/B] [B]2. Science only produces tentative conclusions that can change.[/B] [B]3. Science has one uniform way of conducting research called the scientific method.[/B] [B]4. Scientific theories are explanations and not facts.[/B] [B]5. When being scientific one must have faith only in what is justified by empirical evidence.[/B] [B]6. Science is just about the facts, not human interpretations of them.[/B] [B]7. To be scientific one must conduct experiments.[/B] [B]8. Scientific theories only change when new information becomes available.[/B] [B]9. Scientists manipulate their experiments to produce particular results.[/B] [B]10. Science proves facts true in a way that is definitive and final.[/B] [B]11. An experiment can prove a theory true.[/B] [B]12. Science is partly based on beliefs, assumptions, and the nonobservable.[/B] [B]13. Imagination and creativity are used in all stages of scientific investigations.[/B] [B]14. Scientific theories are just ideas about how something works.[/B] [B]15. A scientific law is a theory that has been extensively and thoroughly confirmed.[/B] [B]16. Scientists education, background, opinions, disciplinary focus, and basic guiding assumptions and philosophies influence their perception and interpretation of the available data.[/B] [B]17. A scientific law will not change because it has been proven true.[/B] [B]18. An accepted scientific theory is an hypothesis that has been confirmed by considerable evidence and has endured all attempts to disprove it.[/B] [B]19. A scientific law describes relationships among observable phenomena but does not explain them.[/B] [B]20. Science relies on deduction (x entails y) more than induction (x implies y).[/B] [B]21. Scientists invent explanations, models or theoretical entities.[/B] [B]22. Scientists construct theories to guide further research.[/B] [B]23. Scientists accept the existence of theoretical entities that have never been directly observed.[/B] [B]24. Scientific laws are absolute or certain.[/B] [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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