{"id":4747,"date":"2010-06-06T23:22:05","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T23:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/06\/neil-degrasse-tyson-agrees-wit\/"},"modified":"2010-06-06T23:22:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T23:22:05","slug":"neil-degrasse-tyson-agrees-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/06\/06\/neil-degrasse-tyson-agrees-wit\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil deGrasse Tyson Agrees With Me About The Innumeracy of Intellectuals"},"content":{"rendered":"

A great clip from his World Science Festival appearance the other night, especially the bit toward the end:<\/p>\n

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“One thing I think that as a nation we should be embarrassed by is that the scientists– you can do this experiment yourself, I’ve done the experiment– the scientists, by and large, know more liberal arts than the science that is known by liberal artists.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Or you can read my longer, less funny version<\/a> from a couple of years ago. Either way, it’s an important message: It should be exactly as embarrassing in educated company to say “I’m no good at math” as it would be to say “I’m no good at reading.” The fact that it isn’t– that it’s ok to laugh off innumeracy– is a major problem for us as a society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A great clip from his World Science Festival appearance the other night, especially the bit toward the end: “One thing I think that as a nation we should be embarrassed by is that the scientists– you can do this experiment yourself, I’ve done the experiment– the scientists, by and large, know more liberal arts than… Continue reading Neil deGrasse Tyson Agrees With Me About The Innumeracy of Intellectuals<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,11,75,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-science","category-society","category-two_cultures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}