[Karl Rand]

Take the test yourself. Here's my score: "You correctly answered 9 of the 9 possible questions along with approximately 4% of the public. You did better than 96% of the general public."

Public Knowledge of Current Affairs Little Changed by News and Information Revolutions What Americans Know: 1989-2007

[Russ]

You did much better than me. I scored 77% (I have always been a bad test taker) and I have never seen either of those two shows.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Me too, and honestly I thought I had missed a few when I answered them.

[getitright]

Well just damn. I got screwed. I missed “two” because there was one question which if answered incorrectly also nails you for getting a follow up wrong even though you never get asked the follow up.

The first question was a little obscure anyway I thought. Did Congress pass minimum wage increase? a- just the house. b- just the senate. c- passed both. d- passed neither.

And no- I did not answer “just the senate”!

[saganite]

8 out of 9 for me. I missed the one about Hillary having declared her candidacy. I must have a mind block associated with anything Clintonian.

[Sandreckoner]

What a bizarrely misleading article. According to the Pew results on their web page:

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=319

... Rush Limbaugh and O’Reilly fans were right beside the Daily Show watchers, and were at the top of the list.

FOX news did not score significantly differently than did local TV news, network evening news, blogs or morning shows. CNN was only marginally better than FOX.

[free_for_now]

rigged. John Roberts is only generally considered conservative because he is a Rebublican. I guess only Democrats can be moderate.

[free_for_now]

rigged. John Roberts is only generally considered conservative because he is a Rebublican. I guess only Democrats can be moderate.

[NonValueAdded]

77 as well. However, there are a few questions that are about facts I purposely ignore (I tune out the death count news since the agenda behind such reporting ticks me off) or are distinctions without a difference (Hillary’s “announcement” status).

[God luvs America]

bump

[SAJ]

Sheesh, what a lame test. 46 seconds to get 9 of 9. Didn’t see the bit about Fox News watchers. It never asked, afaik. (shrug)

[Tatze]

Thank you for taking our News IQ quiz. You correctly answered 9 of the 9 possible questions along with approximately 4% of the public. You did better than 96% of the general public.

[Salvation]

LOl! I got the minimum wage question wrong.

[bvw]

That test has a strong liberal bias. For example I don't care about the minimum wage. It's stupid. But a lib does.

Answer the "Did the Senate, the House, Both or Neither pass minimum wage legislation?" wrong (the answer is both), and it doesn't come back to to ask you what the minimum wage was. But it marks you WRONG about the question it doesn't ask you.

The first time thru I pulled a 96% (one off), the second time I threw that min wage question and thus got TWO more off -- a 77%.

[torchthemummy]

Love this caveat-

Question 5 was asked only of respondents who correctly answered the preceding question about minimum wage legislation. If you answered the minimum wage legislation question incorrectly, the follow-up question was not asked.

This was the one question I got wrong (I thought only the House passed it but forgot that the Senate did too and they are in the process of reconciling) but because I did I wasn't asked a follow-up question and thus got 2 wrong. That undermines the whole test by creating a 2-for-1 on arguably the trickiest question ("Did Hillary announce?" - give me a break). In fact shouldn't the "How many soldiers have been killed?" been a qualifier for the "Have more Iraqi civilians or US soldiers died?"?

This a WORTHLESS POLL with an agenda ("Is John Roberts a L,M or C?"; "Hillary running?"; "More or less civilians or soldiers", etc)

[GreenAccord]

Search is our friend...

I was going to post a link to this test that I ran across while surfing Townhall.com. Luckily, instead of simply posting a new thread, I searched for "PEW" and found the 2+ week old post.

So anyway, hooray for me for not re-posting, and bumparoonie!

_{By the way, I scored 9 outta 9. You don't think I'd post a new thread if I scored the same as the common schlep?}