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Test your News IQ - Take the quiz:
http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php ^ | Mar 9, 2012 | Pew Research Center

Posted on 03/07/2012 9:09:29 PM PST by Iam1ru1-2

This is a cool test.

It shows results in a number of ways. It indicates that the majority of Americans haven't the slightest idea as to what is going on.

It's no wonder our politicians take such advantage of us.

This is an interesting and simple test. It's astonishing that so many people got less than half right. The results say that 80% of the (voting) public doesn't have a clue and that's pretty scary. There are no tricks here - just a simple test to see if you are current on your information. Test your knowledge with 13 questions, then be ready to shudder when you see how others did.
Click here: Test Your News IQ - Pew Research Center


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To: Iam1ru1-2

Got 12 right. Only missed Sotomayor...which is surprising considering how much media attention they were given. However, they’re both so fugly that I must have blocked them out of my mind.

But why did women do so poorly on the test? Are we seriously stupid or just clueless? The men totally pwned us on every question. Depressing.

Mrs. Prince of Space


21 posted on 03/07/2012 9:30:19 PM PST by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby!)
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To: Iam1ru1-2

Easy questions but results explain how Obama Got Elected:

Men Averaged 8.5 of 13

Women Averaged 6.8 of 13


22 posted on 03/07/2012 9:32:10 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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To: Prince of Space

I got 13 - gotta help the women’s score. Many women I know just say they’re not political. Unfortunately, many of them are also ill informed and vote with their emotions.


23 posted on 03/07/2012 9:32:19 PM PST by Think free or die
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To: Iam1ru1-2

got them all, but was a little lucky wit sotomaie


24 posted on 03/07/2012 9:32:29 PM PST by munin
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To: Iam1ru1-2

The only one I missed was one of the easiest...Speaker of the house.
Dumb me, I can not get that picture of Paluzie and her gavel
out of my head.
Yes, I do know that we recently took back the House.


25 posted on 03/07/2012 9:32:52 PM PST by AlexW
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To: Iam1ru1-2

After seeing the results of that quiz it is understandable as to why the Founding Fathers originally limited voting rights to older educated men of property.

I got 100%, just like most of my peers.


26 posted on 03/07/2012 9:33:21 PM PST by radpolis (Liberals: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy)
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To: Iam1ru1-2

13/13 and I DIDN’T vote for 0bama, imagine that? This so-called IQ test was made easy otherwise HALF of America would fail it because they’ve been INTENTIONALLY DUMBED DOWN by liberal teachers whose goal it is to manufacture more TOTALLY IGNORANT Democrat voters.


27 posted on 03/07/2012 9:37:18 PM PST by FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
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To: Iam1ru1-2

13/13. Too easy for this female woman of the delicate persuasion who barely made it out of high school.


28 posted on 03/07/2012 9:38:40 PM PST by fullchroma
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To: Iam1ru1-2

Aced it. Very easy.


29 posted on 03/07/2012 9:39:04 PM PST by aliquando (A Scout is T, L, H, F, C, K, O, C, T, B, C, and R.)
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To: Iron Munro

“Men Averaged 8.5 of 13
Women Averaged 6.8 of 13”

Yeesh, what a dipshiite test - almost a quarter of the questions involved matching a picture to a name; almost all the rest were something I expect my 8th grader could handle. Looking at the average score, I despair for my country.

But not only did women do worse than men overall, they did worse than men on every single lousy question.

Thank God for female freepers - I’m confident they at least did better than the national male average.


30 posted on 03/07/2012 9:40:55 PM PST by Stosh
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To: Stosh

I, another woman, got 100%. Currently that’s 8% of those taking the quiz. Very, very sad.


31 posted on 03/07/2012 9:45:09 PM PST by dorothy ( "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: texas_mrs
Me too. Guess we got out before public education did irreparable harm.
32 posted on 03/07/2012 9:47:39 PM PST by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: Iam1ru1-2

Missed one, no idea which one. Maybe the first guy? Was he Federal Reserve?


33 posted on 03/07/2012 9:48:47 PM PST by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: dorothy

I also got 13/13. Didn’t even have to think hard about any of them.

All of the women acing the test are probably FReepers.


34 posted on 03/07/2012 9:52:56 PM PST by FrogMom (There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: Iam1ru1-2

Very easy...I expected a much harder go...sad state of affairs that many (men & women) don’t know such basic knowledge.


35 posted on 03/07/2012 9:54:39 PM PST by Kaosinla (The More the Plans Fail. The More the Planners Plan.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

So did I - missed only the Sotomayor.


36 posted on 03/07/2012 9:59:04 PM PST by Let's Roll (Save the world's best healthcare - REPEAL, DEFUND Obamacare!)
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To: All; Iam1ru1-2
THIS is a problem: Only 43% know what Republicans control in gov't.

Obama will exploit this in his war on Congress when the Republican House has been doing work and Hooligan Harry's Do Nothing Democrat Senate has become a legislative black hole.

37 posted on 03/07/2012 10:05:22 PM PST by newzjunkey (Santorum: 18-point loss, voted for Sotomayor, proposed $550M on top of $900M Amtrak budget...)
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To: Iam1ru1-2
Nailed it.

Now I feel like a nerd.

Can't win...

38 posted on 03/07/2012 10:07:03 PM PST by stormhill
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To: Prince of Space
But why did women do so poorly on the test? Are we seriously stupid or just clueless? The men totally pwned us on every question. Depressing.

Depressing, isn't it. What's why some women, like Ann Coulter, think women haven't earned the franchise.

39 posted on 03/07/2012 10:07:47 PM PST by newzjunkey (Santorum: 18-point loss, voted for Sotomayor, proposed $550M on top of $900M Amtrak budget...)
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To: radpolis

Additionally, our Forefathers understood what happens when candidates are male and if voters are female. Votes get cast for all the wrong reasons.


40 posted on 03/07/2012 10:09:36 PM PST by FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
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