Research on very small bananas.
Posted on 08/28/2013 7:42:51 AM PDT by Kip Russell
Take our 13-question quiz to test your knowledge of scientific concepts. Then see how you did in comparison with the 1,006 randomly sampled adults asked the same questions in a national poll conducted by the Pew Research Center and Smithsonian magazine.
The analysis of the findings from the poll can be found in the full report. (No peeking! If you are going to take the quiz, do it first before reading the analysis.)
I agree it was ridiculously easy. However, this summer I have taught chemistry to high school students who had failed during the academic year and I can say that they would have failed this test also (at least before they got me, LOL!)
LOL only 66% of college grads knew what “fracking” produced .
Yeah and I didn't like the question about "The continents on which we live have been moving their location for millions of years and will continue to move in the future. Is this statement..." I have no problem with continents moving but not for millions of years.
The really tough one seems to be what is the biggest component of air. Only 20% of test takers, and 31% of college grads, got that correct.
Of course I got a perfect score, they’ll have to step up the questions a bit....
How about a few bonus questions
14: Guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine are:
a. Artifical sweeteners
b. Vitamins
c. Components of DNA
d. Spices
15: The basic principles of the digital computer were invented by:
a. Bill Gates
b. Grace Hopper
c. Johnny von Neumann
d. IBM
16: The first successful nuclear reactor:
a. Was built by Madame Curie in her garden in France
b. Was built in Hanford, Idaho following the end of WWII
c. Was built under a football stadium in Chicago
d. Was developed in Nazi Germany, but never used for anything
Same here. I whizzed through them.
13 out of 13 on the easy quiz.
Only 40 out of 50 on the other one.
On the first quiz I scored better than 93% of the public.
Yeah.
Now, it they included water vapor in the choices, most so-called “scientists” in the government would get it wrong. 8<)
In my defense though, it wasn't lack of knowledge, but surplus of stupid. Are electrons smaller than atoms: false. sigh. they were so easy I was breezing my way through them and not reading them closely enough.
Okay, I confess. 12/13. I missed the nitrogen one.
The one about medical studies was wrong though. It asked if the proper study procedure to evaluate the effectiveness of a drug is to give the medicine to all or to give half the group the medicine and half nothing. The correct procedure is to divide the group into thirds: medicine/nothing/placebo.
I thought they were going with the global warming hype and got fooled into agreeing. It was the only one I missed by trying to out think them.
ah the old push poll -
“What gas do most scientists think causes global warming?” with the only reasonable (and correct according to Pew) possibility being CO2.
H2O has a far greater impact, but of course the Sun drives temperatures on Earth. (Manmade global warming is a hoax.)
I got everything right except that question about sex ...
Research on very small bananas.
No 15-16 aren't science and technology, rather history.
No 14 is just too easy.
13 for 13. 47 out 50 on CSM test.
> I maxed it, but still chuckled at the question about ...most scientists regarding CO2 as the gas causing heating.
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> Any “scientist” that really feels that way should go back to Physics 101, have his/her grade removed, and study something more matched to their limited IQ...such as sociology.
Sociology might be a bit too taxing, might I suggest Scientology?
You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly.
You scored better than 93% of the public and the same as 7%.
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