It's not ignorance, is it? It's passionate commitment to falsehoods.https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/964385818021314561 …
It is not overblown: on 6 of 8 questions people did worse than chance, i.e., worse than a random number generator. That's appalling for such basic knowledge.
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I should clarify: this was true when I wrote the essay. I haven't re-checked - it's possible Nature has updated their numbers. Though eyeballing them they still look really bad, comparable to a random number generator.
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How is this basic knowledge? It may be useful knowledge but why should every academic be expected to know the global measles vaccination rate?
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