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Test Your News IQ
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/test_news.html ^

Posted on 05/17/2011 5:14:43 AM PDT by navysealdad

This is a terrific test. And it shows results in a number of ways. It sure indicates that the majority of Americans don't know what's going on. No wonder our politicians take such advantage. Interesting and simple test. It’s astonishing that so many people got less than half right. These results say that 80% of the (voting) public doesn’t have a clue – and that’s pretty scary.

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To: 21stCenturion

If the under current budget expenses equaled revenue, we would still have previously accumulated debt. It is true that it would no longer be growing (or shrinking), but we would still have debt.

I think, perhaps, the question on the three branches of government should have specified federal government. Although I got that correct, I could see how a knowledgeable person could answer “federal, state, and local” even while knowing the correct answer.

My score was 96.97. I got the Lincoln/Douglas question wrong.


41 posted on 05/17/2011 6:49:44 AM PDT by evilC
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To: 21stCenturion

agreed, tariffs, corporate income taxes aren’t included in their simplistic answer.


42 posted on 05/17/2011 6:59:37 AM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: 21stCenturion
I don’t buy that ‘Correct Answer’. Am I missing something ?

Say you pull in $500 a month, but you have $1000 in debt. Your expenses, including your $50 payment on your debt, total $500. Your income = your outgo, but you still have debt.

43 posted on 05/17/2011 7:06:47 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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To: IM2MAD

Woo hoo! 33 for 33!


44 posted on 05/17/2011 7:07:45 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
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To: navysealdad

missed the unemployment. I chose 15% and I think that is closer to where we are (based on articles and radio) but the correct answer on this quiz is 9%.


45 posted on 05/17/2011 7:08:11 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman ("...; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,... "Hosea 4:6)
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To: navysealdad
I only missed one, the obesity question.
It does not make me feel better. I failed last months civics test.
46 posted on 05/17/2011 7:08:26 AM PDT by PROTESTBYPROXY (We are manning up!!)
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To: occamrzr06

There is.....at Wal Mart.


47 posted on 05/17/2011 7:09:09 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman ("...; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,... "Hosea 4:6)
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To: navysealdad
Got 11 out of 11. Used deductive reasoning on the obesity question, though....

Mrs. Prince of Space

48 posted on 05/17/2011 7:13:19 AM PDT by Prince of Space ("The problem with quotes on the internet is it's hard to verify their authenticity." Abe Lincoln)
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To: PROTESTBYPROXY

I got 11/11, but I will admit that I guessed on the CDC/Obesity one. I suppose it’s potluck as the CDC estimate probably has less to do with reality and more to do with a political agenda anyways.


49 posted on 05/17/2011 7:13:47 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: navysealdad

I’m reel smarter than some others
I done reel good !

This is hugh im series most folks says im dum


50 posted on 05/17/2011 7:14:06 AM PDT by sawmill trash
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To: 21stCenturion

Obesity got me also!


51 posted on 05/17/2011 7:18:38 AM PDT by mckenzie7 (Democrats = Trough Sloppers!)
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To: Tainan

Funny!


52 posted on 05/17/2011 7:21:08 AM PDT by mckenzie7 (Democrats = Trough Sloppers!)
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To: navysealdad

I would be shocked if at least half of the FReepers who took this test did not score in the top 2 percent.


53 posted on 05/17/2011 9:10:23 AM PDT by blau993
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To: navysealdad

I aced it. Thank you FR!!!


54 posted on 05/17/2011 10:39:09 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
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To: navysealdad

100%.
FR is due a lot of the credit.


55 posted on 05/17/2011 11:39:23 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: null and void

ping


56 posted on 05/17/2011 1:35:05 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.)
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To: IM2MAD

I got 30 out of 33 on your test...a little tougher


57 posted on 05/17/2011 6:34:45 PM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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