Here's a News IQ Test:

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/the-news-iq-quiz/ ^

[Justa]

13/13

You scored better than 99% of the public and the same as 1%.

[Poser]

Another 1%er here.

[expat_panama]

Right, like 4 out of 5 don't know!

This may be telling us more about PEW than people though. Like, PEW is saying that to be intelligent it's more important to know what Snowden or Yahoo's CEO look like than to know what they've done.

[trebb]

Better than 85, worse than 9, same as 6.

[pacific_waters]

I got every question correct and yet scored below 1% of the sample. How is that possible?

[ex91B10]

You scored better than 91% of the public, below 4% and the same as 5%.

[NorthMountain]

Name the one country in
the four that you are least likely to be aborted ...

[Chgogal]

Yup, the ignorance of the Pew Population is a bit disappointing. I did like that about 70% connected the Federal Reserve with monetary policy. It so odd that they were not aware of the DJ average for the last few years. You would think they would be more aware of how the rich get richer.

[MortMan]

The first question is arguably wrong. Federal judges have struck down same sex marriage bans all over the US, so the verbiage of the purported answer is incorrect.

[BulletBobCo]

Ace

[Safetgiver]

.I missed the CEO of Yahoo....I miss her,too, since she got so uppity-muck. (Sigh)

[GeronL]

BTW- how come Yahoo is so messed up today?

I get the mobile version or something, very strange

[RandallFlagg]

I scored better than 96%. Only missed one.

But then, I’m a news junkie.

[Delta Dawn]

There was a tell for the population distribution question...Three of the countries were members of the world industrial complex...The fourth is a third world nether-dweller...pretty easy actually...

[expat_panama]

Something that occured to me this AM was the fact that we’re not hearing what PEW says but rather something that internet surfers say. This is not the kind of poll we’d call “rigorous and scientific”.

[Randy Larsen]

I’m sure that most others who scored badly may have been intimidated to post the scores they got.

I wanted to show that not everyone watches the news 24/7 so my score was probably the norm or a little above.

I didn’t take any offense what so ever. I wish more would participate so we could get a more accurate idea of why these polls matter.