{"id":2252,"date":"2011-12-18T18:07:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T23:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2015-06-04T15:15:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T19:15:17","slug":"lets-just-say-im-glad-the-grades-dont-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/lets-just-say-im-glad-the-grades-dont-count\/2011\/12\/18\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Just Say I&#8217;m Glad the Grades Don&#8217;t Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2254\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/9911478_blog1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2254\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2254   \" title=\"eager learners\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/12\/9911478_blog-300x2001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Teacher, we are eager to learn.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A friend alerted me to this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Science\/2011\/1209\/Are-you-scientifically-literate-Take-our-quiz\/Composing-about-78-percent-of-the-air-at-sea-level-what-is-the-most-common-gas-in-the-Earth-s-atmosphere\" target=\"_blank\">test of scientific literacy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Science\/2011\/1209\/Are-you-scientifically-literate-Take-our-quiz\/Composing-about-78-percent-of-the-air-at-sea-level-what-is-the-most-common-gas-in-the-Earth-s-atmosphere\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>Give it a try &#8212; no google cheating &#8212; and let me know how you do.<\/p>\n<p>And even though I got the first 5 questions right, my final score (to be disclosed in the comments, eventually) left little doubt that I was an English major in college.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s my excuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend alerted me to this\u00a0test of scientific literacy. Give it a try &#8212; no google cheating &#8212; and let me know how you do. And even though I got the first 5 questions right, my final score (to be disclosed in the comments, eventually) left little doubt that I was an English major in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-research"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/hiv-id-observations\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}