Posted on 12/10/2011 7:19:01 PM PST by chessplayer
You may have an opinion on climate change, evolution education, stem-cell research, and science funding. But do you have the facts to back up your opinion? This quiz will test your basic scientific literacy.
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my algebra teacher said mathamatics was the queen of science..all other sciences depend on it..that was when I told him I had to drop his class....He looked at me and said YOU WILL BE BACK. He was wrong...LOL
LOL thats why I picked methane, thought of cow farts...
K+ potassium, an electrolyte, got that one right from nursing
Minutes ago, President Obama called a press conference, at which he announced his score on the scientific literacy quiz: A perfect 57.
BTU is a unit of heat (like the calorie and the Joule), not a unit of power (Watt or horsepower). I answered most of the questions using the same logic as you did.
41 - mostly chemical ones wrong
His Muslim faith helped. "You mean your CHRISTIAN faith!"-George Stephanopolis
That was pretty hard, but a good quiz. I only go 52% right and I could really kick myself because on about 5 or 6 questions I didn’t go with my first guess and so got it wrong.
Because I was mostly just guessing (well, somewhat educated guesses I did take a lot a science in HS and I do sometimes read about it) and the rule is ALWAYS go with your first guess.
Of course, of the many I got wrong, most of those were my first guess too!
Thanks for posting this, it’s much better than the world politics quiz that was posted here the other day. That one was too easy.
I also liked how this showed you the answer right away.
“If I had actually read the question. I might have gotten a different wrong answer.”
LOL, I know that feeling!
Oh for Pete’s sake! This is rigged to get hits to the website!
Skipped out on the test...
48. Changed the two I missed from the correct answer. Go with your first answers.:)
Three quarks for Muster Mark
I got 41 out of 50 (or 82%).
Most of the ones I missed were questions about formulas which I’ve always been bad at memorizing.
Same here, 72%. My downfall was biology which I never had much interest in.
Tests like this are, perhaps entertaining, but if this is meant as a serious indicator of national scientific competency it is wrong. Scientific competence is a combination of logical reasoning, a creative approach to developing explanations for phenomena that are not understood, and sound theorectical and/or experimental technique. Calculus applied to basic physics problems applying fundamental principles (Newton's laws, conservation of energy, and similar) is a much better demonstration of scientific capability.
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Most of those words were not even invented when I went to HS. lol Merriest of Christmasses to you and yours.
I’m a 50 yr old woman who had two yrs of college (Business major). I’ve never been a math or science person. Considering it has been a while since I was in school, I thought I did pretty good! I’d love to see what modern high school grads scored.
Got 44 out of 50. Cheated a bit - opened a tab to the Periodic table, dictionary, and search engine.
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