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BMT (RIP)
01-19-2014, 16:40
http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/
BMT
Fun. I love science. Missed one, though.
Susan
13 of 13. Top 7%. Most folks missed "Which gas makes up most of the Earth’s atmosphere?"
Trapper John
01-19-2014, 16:53
What is alarming is that 52% of the participants in this study failed!! :(
Peregrino
01-19-2014, 16:59
13/13. Boring.
13 of 13. Top 7%. Most folks missed "Which gas makes up most of the Earth’s atmosphere?"
I just missed one and that was the one.
mark46th
01-19-2014, 17:20
13/13... Look out Sheldon...
DAMN !!!!! :mad:
I missed the "How Old Are You?" question .... :mad:
I thought I was younger.
All the others I got correct. :lifter
PedOncoDoc
01-19-2014, 18:07
That was supposed to be challenging? Sad.
You didn't tell us there was gonna be a pop quiz!
So, I just put the white mark on the words with a line under them and mash the button on the left twice, am I right? :D
13/13
Did pause a bit and think about the nail.
GratefulCitizen
01-19-2014, 19:22
13/13
Well under 2 minutes.
Fishing for data for future studies.
Here's a short physics quiz:
http://godel.ph.utexas.edu/Members/larry/quiz/quiz.html
The Reaper
01-19-2014, 19:52
13/13.
Conclusion: There are a LOT of ignorant people in this country.
No surprise, look at the last couple of elections. :rolleyes:
TR
Surf n Turf
01-19-2014, 22:36
13/13
Did pause a bit and think about the nail.
You answered 12 of 13 questions correctly.
You scored better than 85% of the public, below 7% and the same as 8%.
Missed "nail rusting" , selected Sugar dissolving :o
SnT
You answered 12 of 13 questions correctly.
You scored better than 85% of the public, below 7% and the same as 8%.
Missed "nail rusting" , selected Sugar dissolving :o
SnT
Same here got that wrong, forgot that it is a reaction between Iron and oxygen to form ferric oxide.
Is there any math on this quiz?
Is there any math on this quiz?
Nope. You should be okay. ;)
BrokenSwitch
01-20-2014, 07:02
According to the statistics at the end of the quiz, only 1 in 5 people knew that nitrogen is the most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere.
How is that so many people got the nitrogen question wrong? If the answer were oxygen or hydrogen, California would be charcoal by now, with all the forest fires.
How is that so many people got the nitrogen question wrong?
Because their education was saturated with and focused upon only the the two most important aspects of life:
1. White male hetero Christians are evil and ruin the earth.
2. Everyone who is not a white male hetero Christian is a victim regardless of any crime committed and should not be required to work for a living.
Anything else just takes up brain bytes.
Because their education was saturated with and focused upon only the the two most important aspects of life:
1. White male hetero Christians are evil and ruin the earth.
2. Everyone who is not a white male hetero Christian is a victim regardless of any crime committed and should not be required to work for a living.
Anything else just takes up brain bytes.
You forgot hollywood.
x SF med
01-20-2014, 11:46
12/13
why I answered hydrogen instead of nitrogen, I'll never know.... a case of nuclear dumbass, I guess.
Trapper John
01-20-2014, 12:35
12/13
why I answered hydrogen instead of nitrogen, I'll never know.... a case of nuclear dumbass, I guess.
At least you didn't say "nuculear" :D
Guymullins
01-20-2014, 13:21
13
Javadrinker
01-20-2014, 16:51
13/13 .. 1:55
13/13
What I found most alarming was that only 12% of High School graduates or below knew that Nitrogen is the most common element in air.
For those curious, the composition of air is:
78% Nitrogen
21% Oxygen
.9% Argon
.1% everything else
13 for 13. Not a very tough test.
13/13
What I found most alarming was that only 12% of High School graduates or below knew that Nitrogen is the most common element in air.
For those curious, the composition of air is:
78% Nitrogen
21% Oxygen
.9% Argon
.1% everything else
Better yet is that only 59% of college grads knew electrons were smaller than atoms!
You scored better than 85% of the public, below 7% and the same as 8%. 12/13 boy my GED is letting me down ;)
SFOC0173
01-22-2014, 05:57
13/13
13/13 "You scored better than 93% of the public and the same as 7%."
Gee, I only went to high school. :confused: That was really a 5th grade quiz in my day. Also, fracking today is mostly for oil. Oil well, what can you do?
Pat
GratefulCitizen
01-22-2014, 22:40
13/13 "You scored better than 93% of the public and the same as 7%."
Gee, I only went to high school. :confused: That was really a 5th grade quiz in my day. Also, fracking today is mostly for oil. Oil well, what can you do?
Pat
Narrow profit margins in both oil and gas.
Where else does fracking produce profit?
(Hint: it has something to do with organic chemistry.)
AngelsSix
01-24-2014, 07:24
13/13
That was not challenging at all.
I asked a professor about the level of education these days and they told me that most college level work was actually on a 10th grade level. There were more than a few community college instructors that told me that the reading level was on a 8th grade level and they would spend more time getting students up to a senior level of high school before they could move on in college. Sounds about right.
I learned most of that information on the quiz in 10th grade, with the exception of the fracking....
Just saw this today and tried it. Scored 13/13. (And I only had 1 year of college.)
These quizzes are fun if only to see how much I remember these days! :D
13/13, pretty easy.
Bit sad though that the first thing I thought of when I saw "fracking," is Battlestar Galactica. :o