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.
Thank you for taking our News IQ quiz. You correctly answered 8 out of the 9 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 91% of the general public.
I'm embarrassed to tell you which one I missed. Thanks for the link.
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.
That was fun, as long as I don't think too much about how many get it wrong.
Last time I saw this sort of test results amongst a class that I was a part of, I got accused of cheating by handing out the answers! Fricking military. I smoked every course they had laid out for us in AIT, and went through a 5 week course in just over one week.
I scored the highest score that they'd ever seen and set records at time trial stations. I was promised a weekend pass as a result, but before the weekend came along, three of my platoon mates breezed through as well, and I got accused of "cheating."
Stupid assholes. How could I have cheated, when they each tested out entirely on their own? All I did was tell them to study their material. I suppose, in military terms, that amounts to "cheating." That was the first in many disenchantments with my military excursion that had me counting the days to the end of my commitment (that's right...unlike our fraudulent pretendident, I didn't go AWOL, and actually completed my term of committment!).
" Come on. Can't one of you lie and say you missed a question? I'm feeling really bad about myself now. "
Don't sweat it, Sandy. It's all in fun, and truth be told, I made a Harvard-esque shot from the hip on one! (a Harvard study some years ago found that, on multiple choice questions, the answer is "C" far more often than any other).
;-)
Besides, it may not be such a good thing to be so connected to the "news," if you know what I mean!
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.
Thanks for the link Clark. It looks Gatherites are about to screw up the curve........I count 6 out of 7 going 9 for 9 and 1 going 8/9 pretty cereberal group.......Looks like reading my articles is rubbing of on you Clark...........
Thank you for taking our News IQ quiz. You correctly answered 8 out of the 9 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 91% of the general public.
I got the minimum wage question wrong (#5) -- been too long since I figured out income by hourly wage.
9 of 9....but I'm with Don S....it's sad that most Americans don't know these things. But Sandy gets a pass on her missed question, cause lets face it, most of us would rather not admit how many of our soldiers have been killed in this pointless war.
This should make Dannielle and Sandy feel better, I got 7 of 9 and so did my son. I missed one because I hit the button on the wrong one first. I knew better. the number of soldiers we have lost is a number I think I have blanked out. My son, on the other hand does bit watch tv, but just has to listen to his mother rant and rave..
Sandy, there's a local man who started a project last summer, on the 4th, putting a flag up on the poles of a chain-link fence along Route 434 for every US soldier killed in Iraq. There was something about how long we drove at 55mph with flags alongside us that really burned that number into my brain. I've heard others use pairs of boots in a parking lot to have the same impact. You'll never get the question wrong again -- just go up from that figure, though. (sigh)
Clark, thanks for the link.
How much of the low-score syndrome should be blame on an ineffective media, how much on listener/viewer apathy? There's no TV in this household and I beat 91% of the respondents? What's wrong with that picture? I'd blame apathy. I'll bet those same respondents could tell all about Paris Hilton or Britney Spears, or how their favorite team is doing.
Thank you for taking our News IQ quiz. You correctly answered 7 out of the 9 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 77% of the general public.
Olga, 96% is 100%. You scored in the upper 4% of the nation.
Dannielle, thats' the question (minimum wage amount) that I guessed at!
Lyndon, you just reminded me...my first feeling of being screwed by the military came at the rifle range. After scoring expert in grenades, I hammered 28/30 on the rifle range, but the 28th target, at 300 meters, popped back up after going down, and the scorer wouldn't give it to me. Bastage!
Clark, the first time I shot a 9mm handgun, we were using soda cans for targets. I hit 9/9, but didn't tell the guys I was aiming for a different can on the last shot, so they didn't see the one I'd been shooting move and assumed I'd missed. At first it bugged me, but then I didn't see any disadvantage: they'd underestimate me, and I knew I wouldn't miss.
I am glad I did not find this earlier when all of you smart-asses were acing it ... at least I am above the average with 7 of 9 ... but I have always put metaphor ahead of 'fact' anyway. The devil is in the 'details' so I stay away from them and live with generalities. :-) (maybe it's because I was in the Navy and did not shoot as much ?)
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.
Thanks Clark, A fun test to take...I scored in the 96%tile...The questions were very easy except I guessed on the minimum wage thing...I think Sandy misunderstood a question...We have lost about 3500 of our soldiers so far, and many more maimed and injured. Funny, but I'm usually not the best test taker, but seem to ace tests that I'm passionate about. I scored close to 96% on the Michigan Firefighter One and Two, and Fire Officer One and Two exams, as well as the Professional Engineer Exams for Michigan...but rarely got above 65% in my calculus exams in college. I watch a lot less mainstream media now than I did about 4 months ago, and I'm sure my previous news addiction helped with this exam. I've grown tired of media that does not cover the reality of what has happened to America.
They don't report our deficit, or our failed Federal Reserve system, or corporate and lobbying fraud, or massive illegal immigration problems, or lack of real national security....they would rather cover Anna Nicole's death, or a bridge collapse that is just a sign of how we have been screwed by our government to the point where they let our infrastructure literally decay under our feet.
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This is scary.
I'm embarrassed to tell you which one I missed. Thanks for the link.
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.
That was fun, as long as I don't think too much about how many get it wrong.
(I missed the number of Americans killed in Iraq. There are 10,000 more than I wanted to admit.)
Last time I saw this sort of test results amongst a class that I was a part of, I got accused of cheating by handing out the answers! Fricking military. I smoked every course they had laid out for us in AIT, and went through a 5 week course in just over one week.
I scored the highest score that they'd ever seen and set records at time trial stations. I was promised a weekend pass as a result, but before the weekend came along, three of my platoon mates breezed through as well, and I got accused of "cheating."
Stupid assholes. How could I have cheated, when they each tested out entirely on their own? All I did was tell them to study their material. I suppose, in military terms, that amounts to "cheating." That was the first in many disenchantments with my military excursion that had me counting the days to the end of my commitment (that's right...unlike our fraudulent pretendident, I didn't go AWOL, and actually completed my term of committment!).
Don't sweat it, Sandy. It's all in fun, and truth be told, I made a Harvard-esque shot from the hip on one! (a Harvard study some years ago found that, on multiple choice questions, the answer is "C" far more often than any other).
;-)
Besides, it may not be such a good thing to be so connected to the "news," if you know what I mean!
Thanks for the link Clark. It looks Gatherites are about to screw up the curve........I count 6 out of 7 going 9 for 9 and 1 going 8/9 pretty cereberal group.......Looks like reading my articles is rubbing of on you Clark...........
;-)
I got the minimum wage question wrong (#5) -- been too long since I figured out income by hourly wage.
Clark, thanks for the link.
How much of the low-score syndrome should be blame on an ineffective media, how much on listener/viewer apathy? There's no TV in this household and I beat 91% of the respondents? What's wrong with that picture? I'd blame apathy. I'll bet those same respondents could tell all about Paris Hilton or Britney Spears, or how their favorite team is doing.
Dannielle, thats' the question (minimum wage amount) that I guessed at!
Lyndon, you just reminded me...my first feeling of being screwed by the military came at the rifle range. After scoring expert in grenades, I hammered 28/30 on the rifle range, but the 28th target, at 300 meters, popped back up after going down, and the scorer wouldn't give it to me. Bastage!
Oh, that's a classic line! Definitely a solid contender for quote of the week!
They don't report our deficit, or our failed Federal Reserve system, or corporate and lobbying fraud, or massive illegal immigration problems, or lack of real national security....they would rather cover Anna Nicole's death, or a bridge collapse that is just a sign of how we have been screwed by our government to the point where they let our infrastructure literally decay under our feet.
(Clark, I hope you won't mind.) Dannielle, you reminded me of the Empty Shirts.