Question

Science plays an important role in our society. Decisions are made by our elected officials. These include energy policies, economic/jobs policies, privacy and social issues. This being an election year, candidates are trying to convince the electorate to vote for them and their party. Assuming they have a basic understanding of science and the inherent benefits and risks; what scientific question would you ask the candidates? What response could they give to convince you to vote for them?

Answer 1

Is science considered a an important basic need for all our children's education
They must specifically answer how they would do this

Answer 2

I think its suppose to be a little longer-- what response would they give etc

Answer 3

Ok, They should say that they would consider the education of the young as an important factor for development. They should also say that the will be more job creation in this field for students.

Answer 4

Do I answer your question

Answer 5

i dunno its suppose to be a bigger essay question i think-- i dont think this would be A material maybe D

Answer 6

1. How are you going to perceive global warming?
Expected answer: We are going to consider this issue from a scientific and economic perspective. We need to encourage economic and scientific solutions for global warming by implementing these concept into the education system.
2.Why should I consider you in my vote
Expected answer: We will are eager to do this job and are dedicated. We will work to find solutions for a scientific perception of things.
That is how far I can go before I fall off topic
(excuse my slow typing)

Answer 7

thanks! you are uber!

Answer 8

This is an interesting question why isn't anyone else answering

Answer 9

its too challenging i would say

Answer 10

Not to be rude. But I'd say that it's a rather time consuming question. The probability that people will take their time to actually read this and then write about it is fairly small, even though it's an interesting question.

Answer 11

^ Yup. Besides, it sounds like a homework question that YOU should be thinking about.

Answer 12

i thought the whole purpose of this site was that other students could answer online school kids test questions?>

Answer 13

Well we are not here to write other peoples essays if that's what your out after.
Here to help with the knowledge we have obtained, sharing it with others... basically

Answer 14

The bedrock basis of science is the philosophy of empiricism: the idea that all theories, no matter how attractive or apparently logical, must be tested by careful neutral experiment, and any theories which fail the test must be forthwith discarded, however sad that may be for our hopes and dreams.

This question presumes that the candidate understands the enormous contribution empirical science has made to our daily comfort and success. So I would ask him: What is the basis of the success of science? Why does it work so well?

An answer that was similar to what I wrote in the first paragraph would influence me to vote for him. Not because he would do useful things for science and technology per se. But because much larger areas of our lives -- the success of our economy, the health of our citizens, the probability that the average high-school or college graduate can land a decent job quickly, buy a car and a house and start a family, et cetera -- are profoundly influenced by Federal policies. Unfortunately, it is too often the case that these policies are based on untested (and sometimes even untestable) theories about how the world works. About what, for example, will cure unemployment or increase economic growth. Too often, we lurch from one wild guess about the nature of society and economy to another, without at any time taking the time and care to test, experimentally, whether any of these ideas are actually true and will work. I think this does a great deal of damage to our prospects.

Hence a candidate who responded by making a big speech about his favorite theories, and why they just absolutely make the mostest sense, and otherwise indulged in long chains of pure logic, unadorned with hard experimental fact, would immediately lose my vote.

I will add, however, that as a scientist I think the scientific awareness of a candidate for President is among the least important of his qualifications. The President is not a dictator, who makes each and every important national-level decision. Nor do I want him to be. So the President need not have expertise in every field, so that he and he alone can make the best decisions in every area of national importance.

What is much more important is that the President, first, have an awareness of what he can and can't accomplish -- a proper sense of humility, that is, and a respect for the boundaries of his office established by the Constitution. It's very important that, for example, he know what he cannot, and must not, attempt -- where people must be free to make decisions for themselves, regardless of his opinion.

Secondly, he must be an outstanding judge of men, because the most important job of the President is to appoint several thousand executive officers in the Federal Government, starting with the heads of all the Departments, as well as hundreds of Federal judges, and sometimes Supreme Court Justices. All of these appointees will make decisions that affect all Americans, and the President simply does not have the time to review each and every one. Consequently, it is extremely important that the President be a quick and reliable judge of men, so that he will always appoint honest, reliable, and competent people to all these positions.

Answer 15

I doubt any of the canditates have an 8th grade science education :P.