No Wonder Americans Don’t Know Life Begins at Conception, They Don’t Know Basic Science

Earlier this week, pollsters released the results of a AP/GfK survey on scientific knowledge. Just over 1,000 American adults were presented with various scientific statements and asked to state how confident they were that the statement was correct: extremely confident, very confident, somewhat confident, not too confident, or not at all confident.

Most news outlets that covered the story focused on the large percentage of Americans rejecting climate change, evolution, and the Big Bang—and while I do find those numbers disheartening, they’ve been reported frequently, and I’ve become somewhat desensitized to them.

This, however, floored me:

“Inside our cells, there is a complex genetic code that helps determine who we are.”

Extremely confident: 38%
Very confident: 30%
Somewhat confident: 22%
Not too confident: 8%
Not at all confident: 1%

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