Here's the paper, which isn't linked from most journalists reporting on it: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0520-3
Google "sci-hub" if you want open access to it, using it's doi https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0520-3
Here's one of the surveys they used. It appears they all had the same science questions. https://osf.io/9gztf/ (Study1 Survey.pdf)
Here are the questions:
The center of the earth is very hot: True
The oxygen we breathe comes from plants: True
Antibiotics kills viruses as well as bacteria: False
All radioactivity is man made: False
Almost all food energy for living organisms comes originally from sunlight: True
All insects have eight legs: False
The earth orbits the sun: True
Men and women normally have the same number of chromosomes: True
The continents have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move: True
Lasers work by focusing sound waves: False
Electrons are smaller than atoms: True
All plants and animals have DNA: True
Humans share a majority of their genes with chimpanzees: True
It is the father’s genes that decide whether the baby is a boy or a girl: True
This depends on what exactly you mean by "smaller than". My first thought is to consider the delocalized particle cloud, in which case this is false in the case of valence electrons.
Energy “originally” from sunlight even more “orginally” comes from the strong force.
The antibiotic neomycin has been shown to have therapeutic effect against multiple viruses.
It’s the father’s genes that decide whether the baby is a boy or a girl is not true if you are talking about “boy” and “girl” as self-determined gender identity rather than biological sex. Might have been clearer to frame this as male or female baby.
Yeah, we all know what's ACKCHYUALLY [0] true, but given the context and elementary wording of the questions, you know the correct answer.
