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So what were some of the questions that Fox viewers apparently failed?

1) To the best of your knowledge, have the opposition groups protesting in Egypt been successful in removing Hosni Mubarak?

2) How about the opposition groups in Syria? Have they been successful in removing Bashar al-Assad?

3) Some countries in Europe are deeply in debt, and have had to be bailed out by other countries. To the best of your knowledge, which country has had to spend the most money to bail out European countries?

4) There have been increasing talks about economic sanctions against Iran. What are these sanctions supposed to do?

5) Which party has the most seats in the House of Representatives right now?

6) In December, House Republicans agreed to a short-term extension of a payroll tax cut, but only if President Obama agreed to do what? (Open-Ended)

7) It took a long time to get the final results of the Iowa caucuses for Republican candidates. In the end, who was declared the winner? (Open-Ended)

8) How about the New Hampshire Primary? Which Republican won that race? (Open-Ended)

9) According to the figures, about what percentage of Americans are currently unemployed? (Open-Ended)

How many did you answer correctly?

In all odds, the study is only gaining national notoriety because it fits the anti-Fox narrative of most of the media.

But does it really? MSNBC received similarly low scores, and their numbers were not oversampled. In fact, if this graph showing knowledge of domestic affairs is to be believed, the people who ended up the most misinformed were conservatives who made the mistake of watching MSNBC. The only people who ended up misinformed after watching Fox, on the other hand, were liberals:

With the exception of #5, and possibly #8, none of these questions has a simple, objective answer. Even #8 is very oddly phrased.

For example, what is the unemployment rate? I'm sure that the liberal answer is 8.1%, the number published by the hijinks of the Obama administration. Virtually no one here thinks that is correct. It's really over 11% if you include all of those who have given up looking because of the Obama policies. It would be over 18% if you also include the under employed. Yet we would all be counted as uninformed for knowing this.