Posted on 11/26/2008 8:57:21 AM PST by Publius804
Civics Quiz
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? Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.
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I only got 87.8%. I need to go back to school. :-(
I got one wrong - the last one, and I thought there was no good answer for that one - the one they said was correct was not statistically accurate.
I scored 93.4% -— missing 2 questions.
I did find it pretty hard to believe that people were missing half of those questions. Then I remembered this goofball I used to work with telling a group of people that The Supreme Court gathers together and chooses who the Chief Justice is. Then, I thought about Obama being elected. I no longer find people missing half the questions is hard to believe.
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
A. government debt is zero
B. printing money no longer causes inflation
C. government is not helping anybody
D. tax per person equals government spending per person
E. tax loopholes and special-interest spending are absent
They said D was the right answer - but that is not correct without the word 'average' used for context. For example, a multi-millionaire will pay far more in taxes than he uses in government services.
90.93, missed three
I got 85% (rounded). Just shows me that I don’t know everything ;-).
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I scored 93.94%, missing two (#29 and #30).
I took it the other day and scored around 90, I think I missed 3.
I had my 20 year old take it this AM and he scored in the low 90s (he graduated from a State U last year, and is enrolled in a grad program at a B-school, so that helped him with the economics questions...but he did get most of the civics/history questions right...he had a retired military man for his Civics/Am Govt class in college, so that probably helped.)
93.94%.....missed 2
91% .. better than I would have done while still in School!
Missed two - 93%.
You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %
Average score for this quiz during November: 78.0%
Average score: 78.0%
88%
You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
Average score for this quiz during November: 78.0%
Average score: 78.0%
78.79
FAIL
(Ok not really, but this is sad)
Took it a couple of days ago (different thread). Scored 100%.
Me too. And one was a simple idiotic misread of the question, because knew the answer they wanted.
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