Posted on 07/05/2011 8:27:07 PM PDT by upchuck
Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen? The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better?
Take the test. 33 questions. It's not easy. Be sure to check out the table at the end of the quiz that shows the incredible spread between the scores of citizens and politicians.
Post your score below.
Enjoy!
Link.
Also 31/33. Interesting how the questions went from purely fact based to ones that were a little more, how shall I say it, “interpretive,” based on the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s ideology.
I scored 96.97% correct 32/33. The questions were fairly easy I thought. I went to hick schools in small town Florida, but I do read Free Republic from time to time.
31/33
Interesting that the 2 questions I missed were related to Lincoln.
84.85%
I answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85%!!
Woo-Hoo!!!
I agree that's sad. But is that really surprising since most "educators" have RAT leanings?
Bet they all scored 100 on the question about a progressive tax :)
21 out of 33
I scored 32/33. College educators scored 55%? OMG..!!
Results
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You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %
“You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %”
I missed:
Question: What impact did the Anti-Federalists have on the United States Constitution?
and
Question: In 1935 and 1936 the Supreme Court declared that important parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. President Roosevelt responded by threatening to...
93.94%
Same here. Mine was the one on decreasing both taxes and government spending in order to stimulate economic activity. A Keynesian would say that increasing government spending would have a multiplier effect; however, it also increases public debt and withdraws that portion of money which would have a similar multiplier effect in private hands without increasing public debt. Harrumph.
You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %
O got 28 of 33 - 84.85%
33/33. There are potentially two questions that are a bit subjective. Even allowing for that by saying 93% is the best objective grade, if you can’t score 80% on that test you really need to read more — and spend more time on FR. It’s not very difficult.
You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %
Two of them I was wrong, the other I would argue about.
Yes, that was the one I missed too.
Obviously this test has Palin Derangement Syndrome.
Wonder how Obama would do?;)
He’d get all the Socialist answeres right. And there were a lot of choices that were pure Socialist.
26 out of 33 correct ... 78.79%
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