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Science Literacy and Scientific Literacy

scientific literacy: A new report, Science Culture: Where Canada Stands , released today by the Canadian Council of Academies found that 42 per cent of Canadians have a basic level of scientific literacy necessary to understand media reports about science, putting Canada first among 35 countries with similar available data. The council is an independent non-profit group that puts together expert panels to conduct assessments for the federal government on a wide range of public policy issues ranging from policing to wind turbine noise. Read more and download the full report , according to CBC. In order to gauge science literacy, respondents were asked questions such as: Does the sun go around the earth or does the earth go around the sun? Human beings as we know them today developed from earlier species of animals. True or false? Electrons are smaller than atoms. True or false? Canadians are among the most scientifically literate people in the world, a new report reveals. But don't get too smug yet in spite of that, fewer than half of us would be able to read and understand a newspaper article about a new scientific discovery. The science literacy ranking was based on an April 2013 survey of 2,000 Canadians commissioned by the council from Ekos research. That data was then measured against the results for other countries for which comparable data are available. The weighted results are considered accurate within plus or minus 2.2 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.