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  1. Mar 28, 2019 · A 2017 Pew Research Center survey found that 62% of U.S. adults had encountered science through one of these informal institutions or events in the past year: a national, state or county park (47%); a zoo or aquarium (30%); a science and technology center or museum (18%); a natural history museum (16%); or a science lecture (10%).

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  2. How Much Do Americans Know About Science? An exclusive poll shows Americans crave stronger mathematics, science schooling for U.S. kids. Terence Monmaney. May 2013.

  3. Sep 10, 2015 · Most Americans (86%) correctly identify the Earth’s inner layer, the core, as its hottest part, and nearly as many (82%) know uranium is needed to make nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. But far fewer are able to identify the property of a sound wave that determines loudness. Just 35% correctly answer amplitude, or height.

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    • Demographic Differences in Knowledge About Science & Technology
    • What Subject Should Receive More Emphasis in K-12 Schools?
    • Many Say U.S. Students Are Outranked in Science

    The new survey includes a mix of 13 knowledge questions; some are the type that might be found in a science textbook while others come from news coverage of science and technology issues. Among the textbook-type questions, the quiz asks which is a chemical reaction – water boiling, sugar dissolving or nails rusting. Two-thirds (66%) correctly say t...

    Education is the strongest demographic predictor of knowledge about science and technology. People with at least some exposure to college do much better than those with no college experience on nearly all of the questions. On several questions, there also are wide differences between college graduates and those who have attended college but not gra...

    Asked in an open-ended format what one subject being taught in K-12 schools should receive greater emphasis than it does now, 30% volunteer math and arithmetic. About one-in-five (19%) say English, grammar, writing and reading should receive more emphasis, while about one-in-ten cite science (11%) or history (10%). Republicans (35%) are more likely...

    A plurality of Americans (44%) say that average American 15-year-olds rank at the bottom on standardized tests of science knowledge, when compared with students in other developed nations. That is incorrect: According to the most recent available data from the Program for International Student Assessment, U.S. students rank among the middle of OECD...

  4. Mar 28, 2019 · The mean number of correct answers is 6.7, while the median is 7. About four-in-ten (39%) Americans get between 9 and 11 correct answers, classified as having high science knowledge on the 11-item ...

  5. When Americans were asked how much they know about AI in 2020, 22% reported knowing “nothing” about AI, 17% reported that they know “a lot,” and 62% reported knowing “some” (3M 2020). Americans also recently have varied in their familiarity with different applications of AI.

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  7. Mar 28, 2019 · The mean number of correct answers is 6.7, while the median is 7. About four-in-ten (39%) Americans get between 9 and 11 correct answers, classified as having high science knowledge on the 11-item ...

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