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**jeepgrandch** · 03-13-2010, 10:45 PM

It's always difficult to know for sure but the students of that age I've taught in the past, their knowledge of scientists past was very poor but knowledge of science fairly good.

Eight out of 10 boys correctly identified Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, compared with 69% of girls.

So this, first of all, suggests that they used a multiple choice answer survey to question their knowledge - which begs the question 'what were all of the answers?', as arguably Bell invented didn't invent the telephone: just a certain type of (successful) telephone, that he patented. Was Meucci one of the answers?

03-13-2010, 10:45 PM	#4
jeepgrandch Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 382 Senior Member	It's always difficult to know for sure but the students of that age I've taught in the past, their knowledge of scientists past was very poor but knowledge of science fairly good. Eight out of 10 boys correctly identified Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, compared with 69% of girls. So this, first of all, suggests that they used a multiple choice answer survey to question their knowledge - which begs the question 'what were all of the answers?', as arguably Bell invented didn't invent the telephone: just a certain type of (successful) telephone, that he patented. Was Meucci one of the answers?
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