What do people know? (Quiz)

PEW Research Center ^

[Hotmetal]

Most folks here will ace this quiz,but look at the results for others.

[JimVT]

I had to look it up but I guess you speak Minnysoda!

[Skepolitic]

12/12; answers were obvious to any regular Rush Limbaugh listener.

Who misses more than one or two questions on this? (I can understand missing the Af troop strength question, though the correct answer is discernable with a little thought.)

Twentieth-century American liberalism (aka progressivism) isn’t just a mental disorder, it’s a marker for learning disabilities and general cluelessness.

[Ro_Thunder]

Missed 3 - I was thinking the health-care bill was Sebelius’, not Baucus’; I thought Ben Bernacke was in charge of the Federal Reserve Board; and I thought we spent less on healthy care, but got better quality health care.

Ok, I took it again and got 10 of 12 - this time Bernacke is correct?

Weird.

It says I scored below 7% of the population, and above 89%.

[Manic_Episode]

11/12, same one got me.

[Miykayl]

11 of 12 here.

I’d like to see independents split between conserv/prog/libert or something.

I was not surprised to see that Republicans were paying more attention... Which, to some degree, is what this quiz is measuring.

Unfortunately, though, it shows that there are still a great many folks who are oblivious to the world around them.

I wonder how this test (or one of similar difficulty) would have fared 3 years ago... (would show a trend of increasing political awareness, perhaps)

[School of Rational Thought]

11/12 Got the number of troops incorrect.

[Ole Okie]

12/12.

IMHO, the hardest question was that pertaining to number of troops in Afghanistan.

[Filo]

12 of 12 - top 2%. :)

[RnMomof7]

I missed one.. I thought the answer was max but I wasn’t sure.. made me feel dumb, until I saw the other scores.. :)

[RnMomof7]

It is on the site, you can see the individual answers

[scottdeus12]

12/12.

I rule.

[numberonepal]

Demographic Breakdowns by Question

Below you'll find your question-by-question results and the percentage of each demographic group that answered the question correctly in our telephone survey.

		Gender		Education			Age
	Your Responses	Male	Female	High School or less	Some College	College Graduate	Ages 18-29	Ages 30-49	Ages 50+
This shows how many questions you answered correctly, compared with the average number of correct answers for different demographic groups. For example, men answered an average of 5.9 questions correctly.
	12	5.9	4.7	4.2	5.3	7.1	4.0	5.4	5.8
		Percent answering correctly
1. Can you tell me who is the newest justice to join the Supreme Court?	Correct	67	64	55	64	84	46	68	73
2. Do you happen to know who Glenn Beck is?	Correct	45	37	29	40	59	31	40	45
3. Do you happen to know which political party has a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives?	Correct	78	72	66	78	87	65	74	80
4. Does the so-called "public option" legislation being discussed in Congress deal with...	Correct	59	53	46	54	74	40	59	61
5. Can you tell me who is the chairman of the Senate finance committee, which is working on a bill to reform the health care system?	Correct	23	12	9	18	32	11	18	20
6. Do you happen to know who is chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board?	Correct	41	26	23	31	50	18	32	41
7. Do you happen to know if Iran and Israel do or do not share a border?	Correct	54	31	32	41	60	39	41	45
8. Do you happen to know if the national unemployment rate is currently closer to:	Correct	62	45	41	56	69	38	54	58
9. Do you happen to know if the Dow Jones Industrial Average is currently closer to:	Correct	44	23	25	32	48	18	34	39
10. Is health care spending per person in the U.S. higher, lower, or about the same as in most major European nations?	Correct	59	63	55	64	70	57	67	59
11. Does the so-called "cap and trade" legislation being discussed in Congress deal with...	Correct	29	17	14	21	39	13	24	28
12. About how many U.S. military personnel are currently in Afghanistan:	Correct	32	24	22	33	34	21	27	31

[GlennBeck08]

Minnesota, Yooper.. pretty much da same ting der eh. :)