Test your news IQ

[Randypiper]

Test your knowledge with 11 questions

http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php

I'm proud of myself, only got one wrong.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. I got 11 correct. 2 of those were outright guesses. nt

[boston bean]

4. 10 right. missed the obese question. nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. That was one of my guesses. I was also unsure about the spending question. nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

74. Me, too. Like you (I'm betting) I guessed 50%.

[SharonAnn]

84. Me too. Had to guess on that one.

[Islandlife]

90. Me, too. I guessed wrong on the obesity question, but the CDC ....

Results were also a guess.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. I only got 8 out of 11. Got Q's 5, 8, and 11 wrong.

Second-guessed myself on 11, gotta stop that.

[pacalo]

58. 8 out of 11 for me, too. Got 4, 6, & 11 wrong.

[Fire Walk With Me]

63. I'm happy I did as well as this; I get my news pretty much only from DU!

[Kennah]

3. 10 out of 11 as well. Great minds.

[RegieRocker]

5. Same 1 wrong. Unemployed question. According to them.

[doc03]

6. I got 10 out of 11. n/t

[Cali_Democrat]

7. I scored 100%....better than 98% of the public

Took me about 30 seconds to finish. No joke.

[TBF]

9. Coal? I guessed nuclear. nt

[Randypiper]

That's the one that got me too

[Capitalocracy]

18. Disappointing, right?

Yes, we still get most of our power from coal. Disaster.

[Control-Z]

55. Yes.

That sucks really bad. I thought we were progressing at least a little. Enough to slow down on coal use. Oh, wait. They must be using the clean kind I've heard about.

[Malikshah]

46. Same here. Quite surprising.

[kentauros]

85. Read DU's "Environment/Energy" forum

and you wouldn't have missed it ;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=115

[malaise]

10. 11 correct

You scored better than 98% of the public. Damn!

[underpants]

14. Me too. The only one I hesitated on was Govt. spending

then I realized that health care (Medicare) is way overpriced in this bubble nation.

[malaise]

21. Same here

:hi:

[ProdigalJunkMail]

77. mee three nt

[roamer65]

11. 9 right.

[vanbean]

Me too, I missed the one on obesity and the medicare spending.

[bbinacan]

12. I got 11 of 11.

That was too easy.

[Exilednight]

13. 11 questions. Really, only 2% got all the questions right? n/t

[Randypiper]

16. Yes

and 2% got them all wrong

[Exilednight]

19. Just proof that Americans are dumb. n/t

[reggie the dog]

67. hold on now, 10 out of 11 is still an A on a quiz in school

so dont forget the other 7% who got one wrong for a total of 9% in the A range, then you need to calculate the B, C range to find out who is excellent, above average, average and the D and F for struggling and failing. anything 8 or better out of 11 is average or better which is about 35% of the population polled here on the net. the non net going public would likely do worse (people who cannot read etc.) but is it really a question of stupidity or just people who work a shitload and have to take care of kids and just do not pay attention to the assholes running the show? this is ignorance in my opinion but not stupidity.

[Randypiper]

69. I agree

Many people are politically apathetic and aren't stupid but would score low om this test.

[Ezlivin]

76. That's what I wondered

I got all 11 right and only one gave me pause: The unemployment percentage.

I can't believe people missed half or more. But then again, I don't get my news from Fox.

[Morning Dew]

15. Got 'em all - that was fun.

[Capitalocracy]

17. Almost got 11

Got the Medicare question wrong... I thought it was probably the answer, but I didn't end up going with it.

[alphafemale]

20. 11 of 11 nt

[rustydog]

22. Damn, I feel stoopid, I got two wrong

[Botany]

23. 10 out of 11

And you bastards who got all 11 stop looking at me and pointing!

[erodriguez]

24. 11/11 Aced it.

[Poll_Blind]

25. Schweet 11/11

PB

[Spider Jerusalem]

26. 10 out of 11.

Better than 91% of the general American public...despite my having lived in the UK for nearly three years.

[cherokeeprogressive]

27. 10/11 n/t

[Exultant Democracy]

28. 11 of 11. I have a feeling that DU will start shifting these results soon. 11 for 11 is 2% right now

my guess is that we can move it up.

[treestar]

29. 9 of 11

Fewer obese people than I had though.

[Randypiper]

32. You went with 50%?

Maybe you were thinking overweight not obese.

[valerief]

30. Got ten right. nt

[TheKentuckian]

31. You correctly answered 11 out of the 11 possible questions

The obesity question was an educated guesstimate though, the rest was easy.

[BlueJazz]

33. Got lucky...guessed on 2 of them and still scored 11.

[demosincebirth]

34. Got 10 right

[Arkansas Granny]

35. 10 correct. Better than 91% of the population.

[Ilsa]

36. 10/11. I picked hydroelectric vs coal, but nearly picked coal.

[XemaSab]

40. Hydroelectric is a tiny percent

n/t

[rasputin1952]

37. 10 out of 11...

I think I blew it on the "obese" question, the others were pretty well known to me...:D

I are a jeeneeuss...:rofl:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

38. 10/11 Missed the Gov't spending answer.

[XemaSab]

39. I got September 11th right

I was unable to remember the capitalist running dog unemployment numbers and I missed the Medicare question. :(

[dsc]

41. I got 11 right with 1 guess

[rbnyc]

42. We are the 2%!

The demographics were interesting.

[salin]

43. 10/11 ... the quiz made me sad

to one who regularly reads the news - most of these questions were no-brainer questions.

we really are, sadly, a low-information society.

Sad.

[TwilightGardener]

44. 11 out of 11. Yeah, that's right, I kicked ass.

[Motown_Johnny]

45. I got one wrong also

the medicare one


I went with interest on the debt


my bad

[gblady]

53. me, too....

nt

[Kaleva]

47. 10 out of 11.

[rexcat]

48. 11 of 11 - top 2%

[Fla_Democrat]

49. I need a hoby

Here's Your Score: You correctly answered 11 out of the 11 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 98% of the general public.




:smoke:

[rug]

50. If it wasn't for the GD flamewars I would have gotten the obese question right.

[KaryninMiami]

51. Me too- only one wrong!

I didn't know what was costing us more- I said the interest on the debt but it's Medicare. Feeing very proud!

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

52. wow, somethings wrong with that quiz tracking/whatever

I got "8 out of 11" but when I thought to myself NO WAY, and looked at my answers, I saw that THEY WEREN'T MINE.

I was actually 11/11 right.

also, backed out all the way of the poll, to double check my selections along the way... and yeah... uh.
it totally fudged my results. It decided to give me different, wrong answers. cleared out my cache, tried again. same shit.

it decided to make up a different answer than my own on at least 3-4 questions for me. each time.

WTF

[immoderate]

54. I got 11 right. Most DUers will get at least 9. I hope most sixth graders will too.

--imm

[Liberty Belle]

56. I got 10 out of 11.

[ellisonz]

57. Proud Member of the 2%

11/11

[ErikJ]

59. Obesity only 25%???

I heard its 65%! Maybe that was overweight. Not same thing?

[eridani]

64. No. Overweight and obese are not the same. n/t

[laundry_queen]

71. I believe overweight is 50% and obese is 25%. No, not the same thing either. nt

[Mudoria]

60. Got them all right

I will admit I guessed at the medicare question since I also leaned toward paying the national debt was pretty big too.

[southmost]

61. 10 out of 11

medicare question got me

[2banon]

62. I scored 91%. The one "wrong" answer was unemployment percentile

But I think my answer of 15% was under the real rate, while Pew says National is 9% is the correct answer, I have a hard time believing that. The other questions were incredibly simple. I was stunned to see only 7% of test takers got 10 out of 11 correct, and only 2% got all 11 correct. I'm wondering if all the others got caught on the unemployment number.

[Puzzler]

65. 10 out of 11 here (nt)

.

[reggie the dog]

66. 10 out of 11, top 10% yippie

i flubbed the one about what the govt spends most on....

[trumad]

68. 10-11

lucky--- stumped on the obesity question I think.

[laundry_queen]

70. 11 right.

And I'm not even an American. LOL. Those were pretty easy.

[madmom]

72. 10 right here also, we're so "elite"

[bdamomma]

73. oh crap

7 out of 11 correct, yuk

terrible.

[lynne]

75. 11 correct

[Ready4Change]

78. Good test. I like how they provide more details after you are done.

Like that they provide you info on what you got right/wrong when you are done, how you did on each question compared to everyone else, and then a break down on how some demographics did on the individual questions. Very informative.

[Jim Lane]

79. For those of you who went with interest on the debt instead of Medicare....

One thing to bear in mind is that interest expense is highly dependent on the interest rate that the government must pay to induce investors to lend it money. Right now, that rate is very low, despite S&P's politically motivated downgrade, and despite the cries of the deficit hawks that a high level of debt would push interest rates through the roof. Krugman has noted the chasm between their predictions and reality.

What gets me is that two percent of the respondents got them ALL wrong. I mean, that takes a combination of monumental ignorance and incredible bad luck. Even if you pay no attention to the news and you never heard of Moammar Gadhafi or Hillary Clinton, and you don't know who the Speaker of the House is, so you just guess randomly at those questions, you have only about a 42% chance of blowing all of them, and then you still have to screw up eight more questions to get the perfect fail.

Please, someone tell me that those two percent were just goofing around and deliberately picking the most ridiculous answer for each question. Failing that, please tell me they aren't registered to vote.

[dogknob]

80. 10/11. Missed the "most money" question. n/t

[plcdude]

81. 11 for

11

[slackmaster]

82. 10 right, missed the question about what the fed gov spends most on

I picked interest on the national debt.

That may become the correct answer in the future.

[lumberjack_jeff]

83. 11. Apparently the 2% who got 100% right all post on DU

:thumbsup:

[sarge43]

86. Missed two. n/t

[kentauros]

87. I probably could have only gotten one wrong if I'd read

the unemployment question more closely. Instead, I went for a figure that is probably closer to actual unemployment, than "what is reported by the federal government" so I missed it. Also missed the question on federal spending. Figured more was being spent on national-debt interest.

[GoneOffShore]

88. Got 10 out of 11

Missed the one about government spending.

[SteveG]

89. 11 out of 11

only 2% have scored that well.