sornars's comments

On: What Americans know and don't know about science

[sornars]

RE: Polio - I suspect this is because most Americans do know who the other options (Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein) are. This may be reflected in the fact that the most obscure of those three (Marie Curie) is also the one with the most incorrect guesses.

[mnw21cam → sornars]

Marie Curie is obscure? Now I have heard it all.

[sornars → mnw21cam]

That was a relative statement; out of the three I'd expect the general public to recognize Einstein and Newton (in that order) before Curie.