Science writer: Scientists' astounding success rate with research problems they have been called upon to solve causes the public to believe falsely that science can solve any problem. ██ █████ ███ ████████ ██████████ ███ ██████ ████ ██ █████ ███ █████████ ████████ ██ ██████████ ███████████ ████ ███ ████████ ███ ███████ ████████ ██ ███████████ ██ ████████ ████████ █████ ███████████ ██ ████████████ ██████ ██ ██████████ ██ ████ █ ███ ██ ██ ████ ██████████ █████████ █████████ ██████████ ███ ██████ █████ █████ ██ █████ ████████ ████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ████████████
Scientists appear to have a very high success rate at solving problems they’re called upon to solve, and this creates the false impression that scientists can solve any problem. But the apparently very high success rate is a result of scientists’ ability to pick the problems they solve or to formulate the problems they’re asked to solve in a way that makes a scientific solution possible. In other words, the kinds of problems they’re tackling are an unrepresentative sample of problems overall.
The high problem-solving success rate of scientists wouldn’t be as high if they tried to solve the entire set of problems.
The public overestimates the ability of scientists to solve problems.
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