This is a blog about a brief survey that was conducted at Emory University to evaluate how informed university students are about some general scientific concepts and how this may differ from the general population.

Try answering the survey on your own!

True or false:

1. Electrons are smaller in mass than atoms
2. Lasers work by focusing sound waves
3. Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria
4. Human beings, as we know them today, developed from earlier species of animals
5. It is the father’s chromosome that decides whether the baby is a boy or a girl
6. Water boils at lower temperatures at higher altitudes
7. A light-year is a unit of time
8. The size of the gravitational force the Earth exerts on the Moon is the same as the size of the force the Moon exerts on the Earth
9. Astrology is not at all scientific
10. Oxygen is the most abundant element in the universe
11. The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate