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

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

[Burma Jones]

I got 59 out of 60. Should’ve been 60 — fought with myself and lost on the one I missed.

[Riverman94610]

I scored 56.

[Poser]

Only 56 for me. A few of those were pretty obscure.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Dennis Prager says there are some things so ridiculous that only a graduate student can understand them.

[Poser]

“You answered 55 out of 60 correctly — 91.67 %
Average score for this quiz during September: 75.0%
Average score since September 18, 2007: 75.0%”

The average is up to 75.2%. We are raising the score by taking the test.

[MoochPooch]

Regarding answer 'b', is there any legal resident who does not pay (through Federal taxes) directly for National defense?

That was my rationale, also, and I answered 'a.'

I scored 73% (6/8 on the other quiz). I will admit, some I guessed & some I misread (I'm making excuses). Need to study more economics.

[genew]

73.33% here

[zeugma]

But is it more important for Americans to know that John Locke was a major influence on the Declaration of Independence or that they have a strong understanding of their rights and be willing to act on them?"

What a moron. Without Locke, there would be no Declaration of Independence. 

[zeugma]

And this, Fellow Americans, is why we are doomed in the WOT. :(

Agreed, among other things.

I didn't think the test was terribly difficult.  (You answered 55 out of 60 correctly — 91.67 %)

Some of the questions and answers were poorly worded, which caused two of my 5 misses.

[zeugma]

 Has anyone using Firefox taken this quiz?

 Yup... Worked for me...

 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7

[zeugma]

No problem here. Firefox 1.5.0.12.

Would you mind telling me why you have stayed with the 1.5 series of FF?  That probably sounded unintentionally snotty, but I really am interested in why you haven't gone to 2.0? Do you have some extensions that haven't been updated for the 2.x series?

[zeugma]

In first 99 replies

51 stated results
Average 85% (51.1)
Std Dev. 8% (4.9)

Not too shabby for a bunch of on-line nerds

 

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Problem is, if you scored a 20, would you post the results? Therefore, the averages are skewed.

I'd really like to see this administered fairly to all regular FRreepers and all regular DU'ers or Kosacs Unfortunately, there is really no way to do so.

 

[Smokin' Joe]

You answered 55 out of 60 correctly — 91.67 %

Average score for this quiz during September: 75.1%

Average score since September 18, 2007: 75.1%

Yikes! (Back to the books!)

[BnBlFlag]

88.33% here.

[HangnJudge]

Last calculation

134 Replies
Average 86% (51.8)
Std. Dev 8% (5.0)

Unless there is a strong bias against non reporting low scores,
This is an excellent example of Freeper awareness

[cynwoody]

Would you mind telling me why you have stayed with the 1.5 series of FF?

Nothing of importance. A combination of laziness and not liking the appearance of buttons in 2.0. I do have 2.0 on one of my other machines, just not the one I usually use. I just mentioned the version in case anyone else having trouble with the site was still on 1.5.

[wku man]

50/60 for an 83%. In all fairness, this isn't just a history quiz, it's econ also. I only took one semester of econ, so those questions cost me big time!

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[Private_Sector_Does_It_Better]

I tied you, 76.87! I to thought I’d do better. Guess I’m not as knowledgeable as I thought I was.

[B-Chan]

52 out of 60 right = 75% for me (a C).

I dropped out of college.

[Harrius Magnus]

You answered 54 out of 60 correctly — 90.00 %