[AuH2ORepublican]

Do you have the graphic for the question about the first president?

Looking at the responses, I have to assume that they gave the kids choices. How else do you explain 2% saying that Michael Jackson wrote the Declaration of Independence, or that 4% think that the first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as the Monroe Doctrine?

I just noticed that the responses to the question about the number of members of the U.S. Supreme Court add up to 100% (inclusive of “don’t know”), and the responses include 12, 10, 9, 8, 6 and 5 (all with between 5% and 21% of responses) but not, say, 7 or 50 or some other number that dumb kids might guess. So they definitely gave the kids choices for each question. And roughly 3/4 of the kids *still* couldn’t answer questions that my 3-year-old could answer.

[AuH2ORepublican]

I saw that you posted a link to the report, and found the graphics for the 4 questions that you hadn't posted:

[altair]

I just noticed that the responses to the question about the number of members of the U.S. Supreme Court add up to 100% (inclusive of “don’t know”), and the responses include 12, 10, 9, 8, 6 and 5 (all with between 5% and 21% of responses) but not, say, 7 or 50 or some other number that dumb kids might guess.

7 isn't dumb, neither is 11 as guesses go. When I went over the test I wasn't quite sure of the number of supremes. I knew it was odd and either 7 or 9, but 9 sounded better. The lack of any 7 or 11 responses shows they were just plain guessing. 12 responses may indicate some confusion, but ...