Politicians are most unscientific, say Indian scientists
New Delhi: They may be taking decisions that affect millions, but politicians are a most unscientific lot in India, says a new study based on the opinions of 1,100 Indian scientists.
The study, "Worldviews and Opinions of Scientists in India", carried out by Trinity College of the US with the help of the Centre for Inquiry (CFI) India, a non-profit organisation, has found that politicians have a very low level of scientific literacy.
On a scale of one to seven, the 1,100 scientists surveyed said the scientific literacy of politicians in the country is "very low" at 1.9. Interestingly, they believe schoolteachers are scientifically the most literate.
"They rank schoolteachers as having the highest rate of scientific literacy while ranking politicians the lowest," the study found.
"Interestingly, the media scored the third highest, just below young men and above young women."
Media people scored 3.1 points as against 3.6 points by schoolteachers. While young men got 3.4 points, scientists gave 2.3 points to the Indian population as a whole.
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