Graduates Know Even Less About History (Take The Quiz!)

Madison.com ^ | September 19, 2007 | Anita Weier

[KantianBurke]

oh please. can the drama. I bet the majority of the troops fighting over in Iraq and Afghanistan couldn’t get all the answers correct. Does that mean they’re dumb dumbs or that we’re doomed? Of course not. Those guys have better things to do with their time - like defending this country.

[Lancey Howard]

You answered 53 out of 60 correctly — 88.33 %
Average score for this quiz during September: 75.1%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 75.1%

[Myrddin]

I'm in the the game for the whole nine yards. Marketing, requirements, bid, proposal, design, implement, test, deploy...repeat. Sometimes I get lucky and end up recruited into the task after the contract is running. Other times the contract is predicated on access to my skill set. I've endured times when my work is suddenly dictated by a loose cannon in the marketing department. Claims and commitments made in public before checking to see if said items are even possible.

Listen to your customers. They are the ones paying the bills. Scrutinize the rosy projections from the marketing people. Most of it is hot air and wishful thinking. Try to contain your laughter when the Microsoft Project wizards present development schedules and milestones with unwavering authority. Most of them have no idea of the difference between a define process and an empirical process. Software development is the latter.

[dynachrome]

And for those of you up late, it's quiz time. A hard one too! (See #2)

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[Myrddin]

Most of them have no idea of the difference between a defined process and an empirical process.

[stephenjohnbanker]

52 correct.....not too bad.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I just took it now and scored a 72%. I thought I'd done better than that.

Time to read up on Plato I guess.

[Alain Chartier]

I’m going to resist the temptation to Google, take a guess and say (4).

[latina4dubya]

i scored 80 percent!! 48 out of 60 questions correct... i missed 4-5 on the last ten or so... the economic questions... boo hoo... i was kind of surprised how much i remembered from my school days... although i always did like history... on the other hand, i am a homeschool mom and teach history at a co-op... we are right in the middle of The War of 1812... so i’m sure i knew some answers because i am teaching it... but mainly, it’s what i remember from high school/college...

[morkfork]

Ok, 51 out of 60 for 85%. A couple were duhs after I saw the answers. But pulled a few out of left field. Considering my background is physics/engineering, don’t feel too bad.

Doug

[GATOR NAVY]

You answered 54 out of 60 correctly — 90.00 %

Only one of those I missed can I say I knew but misread-I read President Jackson instead of President Johnson...I wondered how the Radical Republicans were coming into it.

[wardaddy]

88.33

some that stuff was just a hunch and some of it I should have paid better attention

i would call this a quiz for college grads

[chuckles]

You answered 53 out of 60 correctly — 88.33 %

Average score for this quiz during September: 75.1%

Average score since September 18, 2007: 75.1%

Oh well, I never studied Plato and Socrates. The questions seemed written to confuse. Seemed slanted.

2 years Jr College in Electronics, so this is High School memory from the 60's.( and several years at FR)

[JSteff]

81.67%

[NRA2BFree]

There has been an intentional dumbing down in America. The only way the traitors in the government can control the sheeple is by intentionally dumbing them down. Especially in History. People who don't know about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights will never know they have any rights! Then the government can control them.

What's really scary is that these people who are graduating in 2008 are going to be the ones who are teaching the kids on down the road. They can't teach them what they don't know themselves. Those folks are really going to be Sheeple.

[uglybiker]

81.67%

Same here!

[Razz Barry]

I’m sorry to say my score was only 71%. My nine and a half years in school were just a waste.

[Talking_Mouse]

I got 52 out of 60 right — 86.67 %

[JSteff]

“81.67%
Same here!”

I wonder if there is anything in that we signed up for FR within 20 days of each other? Hmmmm

[uglybiker]

We’ve been too busy lurking the forums here for the past nine years to read Plato and Socrates. :-P