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News Quiz from Pew Research

#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:12 pm

News quiz 100% celebrity free
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.
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#2 Post by peacock2121 » Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:18 pm

Here's Your Score: You correctly answered 12 of the 12 possible questions along with approximately 3% of the public. You did better than 97% of the general public.

Yet.... me and sploofus, not so much.
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#3 Post by peacock2121 » Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:20 pm

The thing is, if you are gonna take the time to take this test, wouldn't you think you would know most of this stuff?

You pretty much have to be living under a rock to not know most of that stuff.

Don't you?
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#4 Post by peacock2121 » Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:22 pm

100% celebrity free

Not exactly - and the one most people got right.

How sad is that?
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#5 Post by ulysses5019 » Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:42 pm

Got 'em all, barely. Wasn't positive about Senate Majority.
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#6 Post by silverscreenselect » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:26 pm

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On July 15, the Dow closed below 11,000, meaning that 10,000 was the correct answer for someone who took the quiz on that day, not 12,000.
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#7 Post by Kazoo65 » Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:51 pm

I took the quiz and got 11 of them right. That put me in the 91st percentile. I think I either missed (a) the stock market question or (b) the question about which county split from Serbia-I said Kosovo. I guessed 11.000 for the stock market Q.

All in all, I thought this was pretty easy stuff.
I'm just a game show nerd.
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#8 Post by ulysses5019 » Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:45 am

Kazoo65 wrote:I took the quiz and got 11 of them right. That put me in the 91st percentile. I think I either missed (a) the stock market question or (b) the question about which county split from Serbia-I said Kosovo. I guessed 11.000 for the stock market Q.

All in all, I thought this was pretty easy stuff.
You should demand a tougher test.
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#9 Post by Here's Fanny! » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:40 am

6/12! I rock! At least, I rock harder than 48% of everybody else. Ha!

Three of them I knew I picked wrong (I thought it was Democrats that were the majority, but I had picked a Republican in the previous question, so I figured I'd go big or stay home).

On the other hand, I've worked my way back from almost quadruple digits to double digits this month in Sploofus so, yay me! I'm happy.
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