11 comments

• DougSpace

  February 17, 2015 at 11:53 am

  I too got them all correct. But on a fracking question I was looking for oil but only had natural gas as a plausible answer. Pretty disappointing to learn that something like only 27% of people know that air is mostly made up if nitrogen. I learned that way back in high school.
• Cotour

  February 17, 2015 at 5:12 pm

  This was a sixth grade test, I would be very surprised if anyone who reads this web site would get even one wrong.

  The disturbing take away is that 93% of the population could not answer all of the questions and have succumbed to the stupidification of America agenda that apparently is on a successful trajectory. Rest easy Mr. Obama and company your utpoia is apparently just around the corner.
• Brett Hoffstadt

  February 17, 2015 at 6:21 pm

  Thanks for the quiz. Another 100% reader with you. :-)
  For all the hysteria about CO2 in the atmosphere I’m surprised that question about global warming had one of the worst percentages for the correct answer. I have yet to meet anyone who knows the percentage of this in the atmosphere. I could give the answer away here but I won’t. Someone else can.
• mivenho

  February 17, 2015 at 7:55 pm

  13/13, but hardly challenging for someone of normal intelligence. Good thing it wasn’t a history quiz, though…
• Cotour

  February 17, 2015 at 8:18 pm

  This test demonstrates why the media can successfully promote / sell things like “climate chaos” or “wealth redistribution” or “Leading from behind”. Many people apparently are not equipped to question it or other scientific based questions, or historical questions or political questions, or human nature questions, they seem to lack or more correctly have not been properly taught the basic tools to navigate modern life.

  If a majority of the population can not answer correctly questions at this level then they are very easily manipulated, thats the take away from this “test”.
• Chris Kirkendall

  February 17, 2015 at 9:38 pm

  ==> If a majority of the population can not answer correctly questions at this level then they are very easily manipulated, thats the take away from this “test”…

  BINGO !! And this is exactly why some of us believe that in general, Lib/Left Dems really do NOT want an educated electorate – it’s so much easier to push belief in Climate Change, or make people afraid of fracking, or believe obvious lies about Gov’t-run health care, if voters are basically ignorant of these things. If you don’t KNOW anything, you’ll FALL for anything…
• wodun

  February 17, 2015 at 11:17 pm

  The more years that pass since high school, the less I can remember.
• wodun

  February 17, 2015 at 11:22 pm

  I like these feel good quizzes. I stumbled across one quiz a few months ago that required you to type in your answers, no multiple choice. Hardest internet quiz ever.

  Interesting to note on this quiz, that the men generally did slightly better than the women except for the questions about health and the human body.
• Blair Ivey

  February 18, 2015 at 12:01 am

  I have some confidence in the survey validity as the histogram approximates the normal curve. I was also interested in the disparity in correct answer percentages between the ‘high school or less’ population, and the ‘some college/graduate’ populations.
• Cotour

  February 18, 2015 at 8:35 am

  Thank you Chris, I have to assume that your “BINGO” is the demonstrative purpose of this “test” being posted.

  I also assume that the people who populate this site are for the most part very high functioning and accomplished people and after they get over their natural tendency (nerds) to compare their scores and how easy the “test” was they will realize the implications of this exercise.
• Chris Kirkendall

  February 18, 2015 at 11:02 pm

  Yep – you nailed it! I thought the test was almost ridiculously easy, shocking to me that 70% of the population didn’t get at least 11 of ’em right…