COMPLETE QUESTION:
Science literacy, or using a critical lens to interpret scientific findings:
(a) is only important if you choose to become a researcher and/or scientist
(b) involves understanding the findings of one scientific study in isolation, rather than in the context of other research.
(c) is only important when reading pop science articles, and not when reading peer reviewed science articles.
(d) is important because it helps us to make informed decisions in our everyday lives that are based on scientific evidence.
ANSWER:
(Option D) is important because it helps us to make informed decisions in our everyday lives that are based on scientific evidence
EXPLANATION:
Science literacy involves the knowledge and understanding of scientific phenomenons and procedures needed for personal decision making by individuals and economic productivity by the government.
Furthermore, It cross across understanding science, it's theory or law, observation, and methodology. This process serves as an enabler for proper decision making for present, future occurrence (predictive science), and finding information about the past (forensic science, fossil science).
It involves sampling, measuring, observing, analysing, and the use of other scientific tools to make decisions.
