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News & Views item - August 2007 |
Nature Comments on the Changing Scene. (August 30, 2007)
Number Crunch
33%
is the proportion of Americans following science and technology news
"very closely" during 1986–89, according to the snappily titled Pew News
Interest Index.
16% is the corresponding figure for 2000–06.
17% is the number of news junkies with a keen interest in celebrity
scandals, showing that the world of science is now measurably less popular
than Paris Hilton, though perhaps not as much as [Nature's August 30,
2007] Sidelines might have thought.