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Originally Posted by kirant
Not to derail the topic, but those polls depressed me as a whole. Especially the antibiotics and electron/atoms question.
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Fair, this will likely de-rail, but I had the opposite reaction. I was actually positively surprised about high the correct answer volumes were on most questions (maybe I don't have enough faith and simply have lower expectations than I should in others), especially how our US brothers faired against the rest fo the world. Again, I probably biased to them doing worse.
The only area they really seemed to struggle were on the questions where I'm convinced the "bible belt" beliefs on creationism influenced the answers.
As for electrons and antibiotics, I'm not affraid to admit the electron's question was the only one I had to pause on before answering, just not an area of interest to me so I had to think for a second. I was well aware of the Antibiotics question (inerest to me), but unless you are remebering high school science, work in the medical field, or are ill, why would the average person for sure know about the details on how antibiotics only work against bacterial infections? People tend to just go to the doctor and learn about things as they come up for them.
Anyway, point being, some of those questions aren't particularily partical purpose questions, and I was surprised at how well everyone did on some, and particularily that the US wasn't well behind other countries.