BASIC Level "Science Test"

[Totenkindly]

A 12-question test.

The amazing thing is how low the averages were, I expected higher.

(I got all 12 answers correct.)

So what's this say about the background/knowledge retention of the average U.S. adult? I remember being shocked years ago when I found out someone I knew from my expensive liberal arts college could not tell me (within 50 years) when the Civil War occurred...

 

[Athenian200]

I got them all correct as well.

And the Civil War occurred in roughly the early-to-mid 1860s, IIRC.

 

[SolitaryPenguin]

I weep for humanity.


Nah, not really, it's kinda funny.


I got 11 right, despite clicking "False" for "Electrons are smaller than Atoms" (it seemed to register that as "True" for some reason even after I went back and did it again)

 

[ygolo]

The distribution is interesting too. It is somewhat bimodal. One mode at 7 right, another at 9-10 right.

Can we take comfort in the fact that 77% percent get at least 6 questions correct?

A more naive me would have been shocked that everyone didn't know the answers to these basic questions.

 

[stigmatica]

All 12, but I was expecting something a lot harder based on the chart. Damn!

 

[runvardh]

Eh, was hoping for an ego boost then I found out I was just clubbing a baby seal that had it's flippers nailed to the ice... :zzz:

 

[Sniffles]

I got all 12 correct.

 

[Lauren Ashley]

All 12 correct. Not that that was "science."

 

[prplchknz]

11 but i don't know what they found on mars i knew it wasn't plants i was torn with plantinium and water i chose water, it gave me hopes for martians,and i was correct i missed the last one.

 

[scantilyclad]

mmm i only got the last one wrong.

 

[Phantonym]

11 correct. I shamefully admit that I know nothing about lasers
I've put Europe to shame. Nooooooooooo!

 

[Alwar]

12/12. The only one I had trouble with was the one with stem cells because I don't know anything about them, but got it right anyway because the other answers sounded suspect for some reason.

 

[hommefatal]

I got 9/12 right.

 

[runvardh]

11 but i don't know what they found on mars i knew it wasn't plants i was torn with plantinium and water i chose water, it gave me hopes for martians,and i was correct i missed the last one.

You got that one right, you must have answered one of the other one's wrong.

 

[durentu]

12/12 easy peasy. then again, my life is science.

 

[prplchknz]

You got that one right, you must have answered one of the other one's wrong.

yes the last one, but damn humans for radioactivity. we don't deserve to have created it.

 

[hommefatal]

I didn't know anything about these questions, science is boring.

 

[runvardh]

yes the last one, but damn humans for radioactivity. we don't deserve to have created it.

We didn't create it, we just found some scary uses for it.

 

[Usehername]

I did it then realized it was supposed to measure American science. 12/12 is giving you guys erroneous data.

 

[ygolo]

I did it then realized it was supposed to measure American science. 12/12 is giving you guys erroneous data.

I believe they did the research independantly and offline.

I don't believe our online results affect the numbers at all.