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NdGT is a rock star communicator and all around excellent proponent of Science - no doubt. However, does this statement from him make sense: "To be scientifica
by suprgeek 13y ago
NdGT is a rock star communicator and all around excellent proponent of Science - no doubt.
However, does this statement from him make sense:
"To be scientifically literate, I’m not going to require that you have a body of knowledge."?
- cortesoft 13y agoI think he is meaning a 'specific' body of knowledge.. saying that scientific literacy is not about knowing a set of scientific facts, because there will always be scientific facts that you don't know. Scientific literacy is about knowing how Science is used to find those facts.
- csense 13y agoThe scientific mindset is about using experiments to test abstract models of the world. You don't need to know any particular body of existing scientific results in order to do experiments to investigate natural phenomena. EDIT: Although I guess the term "scientific literacy" does actually sort of imply a knowledge of existing known facts.
- twiceaday 13y agoHe is referring to science the method, not science the body of knowledge.