Question

Scientific Illiteracy

Is scientific illiteracy a problem in our country?  How can we remedy scientific illiteracy?  Do you agree or disagree with your classmates?

Summarize your post in the title, don't just title it "scientific illiteracy" that's not going to get anyone's attention...

Assignments will be graded on whether they include following 4 attributes:
• Originality
• Compelling ideas
• References lecture material

Answer 1

Is scientific illiteracy a problem in our country?
Yes. I agree with majority of my classmates. I have learnt from others and myself too have witnessed at several occasions how wrong people sometimes decides lacking complete information of things. They are even fooled by others easily.

Title:
TRAIN BRAIN MORE SCIENCE

Key points:

• Scientific literacy refers to the knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes which are required in our daily lives for personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural activities and in economic productivity too.
• Sadly, our countrymen, by and large, suffer from the scientific illiteracy, even without knowing or agreeing to it perfectly.
• Two decisions taken in the similar situation, one in light of scientific thinking and other in an orthodox way, could be far apart from each other.
• Every decision we make leaves a small or big impact on the way we live. Hence every decision has to be made in well informed and orderly manner.
• We see a lot of scientific illiteracy around in our country. Barring the exceptions, people's approach towards life-situations has remained imperialistic or customary. This must be replaced by the modern way of thinking based upon time-tested scientific principles.
• We can remedy scientific illiteracy by taking following measures:
  • Make lessons in science more experiential and less theoretical
  • Identify people's areas of lacking knowledge which make them suffer the most
  • Prioritize these areas for the social awareness campaign
  • Convince people that for having a scientific attitude towards things or for leaning science they won't need to join schools necessarily
  • Through public propaganda, spread, what big changes people can make in their lives by way of logical and orderly imagination
  • Make people feel proud of thinking in scientific ways.
  • Inspire them with real life case studies
  • State must run public awareness programs for promoting scientific attitude amongst people