Do you know more about science and technology than the average American?
Take Pew Research’s 13 question quiz and find out!
Took about a minute. I got all 13 right and found that I knew more than 93% of the population. The overall demographics of who knows what are intriguing, especially considering how basic to knowledge these questions are.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Take Pew Research’s 13 question quiz and find out!
Took about a minute. I got all 13 right and found that I knew more than 93% of the population. The overall demographics of who knows what are intriguing, especially considering how basic to knowledge these questions are.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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.
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.
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.
13/13, but hardly challenging for someone of normal intelligence. Good thing it wasn’t a history quiz, though…
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”.
==> 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…
The more years that pass since high school, the less I can remember.
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.
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.
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.
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…