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Since 1988, students at the University of Arizona were given a questionnaire in order to determine their attitudes toward science and pseudoscience, as well as examine their basic scientific knowledge. Hadas Shema, Information Science PhD student, tackles those results and compares them to similar NSF studies. The results show a large amount of pseudo-scientific acceptance.
Should it be surprising? Perhaps not. Students are supposed to be open to knowledge and learning early in their college days and a lot of those students will be in the humanities and unfamiliar with what makes science into science.
Students and pseudo-scientific beliefs by Hadas Shema.
