Re: [escepticos] Pseudociencias y cultura científica

["Víctor R. Ruiz" <rvr@...>]

  Hola:

El Lun 06 May 2002 21:51, Vicente Prieto tecleó:
> Ampliando la noticia de la macroencuesta realizada en USA para
> comprobar el nivel cultural de sus ciudadanos.

  Esta mañana Pedro J. Hernándeze envió la página original de los 
resultados del estudio.
  
> Mejoramos en poco y empeoramos en lo de siempre
> Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Public Understanding
> http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind02/c7/c7h.htm

  A higher percentage of men than women answered every question but 
three correctly. The gender gap was 20 or more points for four 
questions:

 - Lasers work by focusing sound waves (61 percent of men compared 
with 30 percent of women).

 - Light travels faster than sound (89 percent of men compared with 
65 percent of women).

 - Earth takes one year to go around the Sun (66 percent of men 
compared with 42 percent of women).

 - Earth goes around the Sun and not vice versa (86 percent of men 
compared with 66 percent of women).

More women than men answered the following questions correctly:

  - The father's gene decides whether the baby is a boy or a girl (72 
percent of women compared with 58 percent of men).

  - Antibiotics do not kill viruses (55 percent of women compared 
with 46 percent of men).

  Saludetes,

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