Personal Decisions: All of this is connected to personal decisions. You alone must chose whether or not to lead a healthy, scientifically literate, bias free life.
Health: Health is connected highly to personal decisions. it is your choice whether or not to lead a healthy life. It is also much easier to live a healthy life if you are relatively unbiased and scientifically literate. If you listen to experts and understand your body you can lead a much healthier life.
personal health: It is much harder to live a healthy personal life if your surroundings (society, environment) are healthy as well.
societal health: Societal health is a collection of the health of many individuals. It also reflects the environmental health of the society, as it is extremely stressful to live in an unhealthy environment.
environmental health: is relative
Science Literacy
Getting Information from the world is the first step in the scientific process
Your curiosity about drawing conclusions from the information is part of the second step, and also the most important attribute of a scientifically literate person.
Critical thinking is another huge part of scientific literacy. In order to be literate in this field of study you must be skeptical and analytical about the information that you're curious about
Understanding is the final step of the scientific process, when you draw your conclusion. In order to be scientifically literate you must understand scientific concepts
Scientific literacy/ Cognitive Bias: Everyone is biased to some degree, but a large part of science literacy is attacking your own bias in order to find out the truth
Evidence is a huge part of scientific literacy. Without proof for your findings, no one will believe what you found is true. This is why so many people get caught up looking for facts to back up their current argument, as in confirmation and anchoring bias.
Cognitive Bias: irrational judgement that stems from our subject perceptions of the world
anchoring bias: When someone relies too heavily on the first thing that they hear about an argument.
confirmation bias When we search for facts that support our current viewpoint, and refuse to entertain the facts that don't support what we believe.
Perceived Understanding is highly related to cognitive biases, particularly confirmation. When we think we understand things, we get very entrenched in that viewpoint and will sometimes refuse to see the other side to that view.
Dunning Kruger Effect: When you overestimate your ability at something. This type of Cognitive bias can be applied to science literacy as well. It is hard to be scientifically literate if you overestimate your intelligence or the credibility of your work.