{"id":464,"date":"2006-01-20T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T22:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/?p=464"},"modified":"2006-01-20T17:44:12","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T22:44:12","slug":"she-blinded-me-with-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/20\/she-blinded-me-with-science\/","title":{"rendered":"She Blinded Me with Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/education\/4630808.stm\">BBC article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Science Learning Centre in London asked 11,000 pupils for their views on science and scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Around 70% of the 11-15 year olds questioned said they did not picture scientists as &#8220;normal young and attractive men and women&#8221;.<br \/>\nThey found around 80% of pupils thought scientists did &#8220;very important work&#8221; and 70% thought they worked &#8220;creatively and imaginatively&#8221;. Only 40% said they agreed that scientists did &#8220;boring and repetitive work&#8221;.<br \/>\nOver three quarters of the respondents thought scientists were &#8220;really brainy people&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s all well and good, but the last quote is by far the best:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among those who said they would not like to be scientists, reasons included: &#8220;Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not have time for family&#8221;, and &#8220;because they all wear big glasses and white coats and I am female&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a BBC article: The Science Learning Centre in London asked 11,000 pupils for their views on science and scientists. Around 70% of the 11-15 year olds questioned said they did not picture scientists as &#8220;normal young and attractive men and women&#8221;. They found around 80% of pupils thought scientists did &#8220;very important work&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-pop-culture","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothfavorites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}