European Union Citizens are More Scientifically-Ignorant
To begin with, citizens of other nations don't fare much better on scientific literacy surveys, and in many cases fan worse. Residents of the European Union, for instance, are less scientifically literate overall than Americans, at least according to one metric for measuring "civic science literacy" across countries.
Notes:
A surprising finding.
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