science literacy
Understanding empirical knowledge
Science literacy is familiarity with basic scientific concepts, methods, and reasoning—enough to understand news about research, evaluate claims, and make informed decisions.
A science-literate person grasps how evidence works, why studies can be replicated or refuted, and what distinguishes scientific consensus from speculation: Improving science literacy helps people assess health advice critically.
- public outreachCommunicating with external audiences
- sustainabilityCapacity to endure indefinitely
- climate changePlanetary atmospheric transformation
- misinformationFalse data spread unintentionally
- causationProduction of effects
Carl Sagan · risk assessment · argumentation · public health · credibility · civic education · evidence-based · scientific consensus · critical thinking · correlation · peer review · falsifiability · scientific method · inference · astronomy · documentaries · environmental justice · numeracy
- Public Knowledgeawareness campaigns, outreach, education programs, public lectures, museums
- public scienceplanetarium, public lecture, STEM education, eclipse viewing
- Science Journalismpress release, data journalism, press releases, explainer, Nature
- science studiespublic understanding, public engagement, scientific community, scientific method, research ethics
- sciencebiology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, geology
- science educationSTEM, biology class, scientific method, hands-on experiments, biology textbook
science literacymagical thinking
Believing thoughts affect unrelated events
superstition · pseudoscience · obscurantism · anti-science · anti-intellectualism