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Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 11:59 am
by native
Are you up on current affairs? Take the latest Pew Poll to find out:
http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Then report your score!
Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:06 pm
by youngterrier
9, I don't know the depth of the water in the gulf and I don't know my supreme court justices (but I took it again and got it all right

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Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:08 pm
by native
I rarely get 'em all, but got lucky this time because they asked the right questions.

Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:11 pm
by OSBF
9, and i feel pretty good about that
Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:13 pm
by clenz
Do you happen to know if Congress passed a health care reform bill this year, or not?
Are they asking if one has been passed, of if I know whether or not one has been past?
Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:16 pm
by native
clenz wrote:Do you happen to know if Congress passed a health care reform bill this year, or not?
Are they asking if one has been passed, of if I know whether or not one has been past?
Yup. I noticed that a lot of the questions started with "Do you happen to know..." What's up with that? Sounds kind of condescending.
Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:17 pm
by clenz
I still got 9 out of 11 correct. I'm curious to know if I got that one right and what exactly it was they were asking.
EDIT: upon further review I did get it correct.
I missed #5. I went with 15 instead of 10
I also clicked the wrong one for the gulf spill. I knew the answer, I just picked the wrong one.
Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:18 pm
by Skjellyfetti
And, it's really pathetic that one of the most missed questions was one with only two possible answers...
Was the government bailout of banks and financial institutions, also known as TARP, passed and signed into law under:
Barack Obama
George W. Bush
38% got it right.

Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:21 pm
by native
clenz wrote:I still got 9 out of 11 correct. I'm curious to know if I got that one right and what exactly it was they were asking.
If you can find the right plce to click, they break down your response to every question. After completing the quiz, click on "How you did, question by question" in blue in the middle of the left side of the page.
Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:23 pm
by 89Hen
These go to 11.

Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:23 pm
by Mountaineer
13% have only gotten 4 correct. Seesh.

Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:23 pm
by Mountaineer
Fuckin' A Hen!!
Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:25 pm
by ASUG8
Skjellyfetti wrote:
And, it's really pathetic that one of the most missed questions was one with only two possible answers...
Was the government bailout of banks and financial institutions, also known as TARP, passed and signed into law under:
Barack Obama
George W. Bush
38% got it right.

I got 10 right, and this is the one I missed.

Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:26 pm
by clenz
native wrote:clenz wrote:I still got 9 out of 11 correct. I'm curious to know if I got that one right and what exactly it was they were asking.
If you can find the right plce to click, they break down your response to every question. After completing the quiz, click on "How you did, question by question" in blue in the middle of the left side of the page.
Found that. I just took the "How Millenial are you quiz", I don't belong in my generation, which is something I knew before I took the quiz.

Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:26 pm
by native
89Hen wrote:These go to 11.

I am surprised that the mode was only 4 and that the average and median were somewhere between 5 and 6. This kind of simple quiz should not result in a bell curve distribution.
Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:27 pm
by Skjellyfetti
ASUG8 wrote:
I got 10 right, and this is the one I missed.

It's ok. Your wife is smokin'... so at least you have that going for you.

Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:28 pm
by Col Hogan
I got 11...that was pretty easy...
Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:29 pm
by Baldy
I'd be willing to bet that the 13% are mostly Democrats.

Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:35 pm
by ATrain
11/11, and I didn't even need to use Google.
Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:36 pm
by native
ATrain wrote:11/11, and I didn't even need to use Google.
Yup. This is one of the easiest quizes I have come across recently.
Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:40 pm
by polsongrizz
Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:42 pm
by native
clenz wrote:
... I just took the "How Millenial are you quiz", I don't belong in my generation, which is something I knew before I took the quiz. ...

I took your Millennial Quiz, Clenz, and scored a 36, which makes me a "Gen Xer," even though I am a boomer.

Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:44 pm
by Gil Dobie
ASUG8 wrote:Skjellyfetti wrote:
Was the government bailout of banks and financial institutions, also known as TARP, passed and signed into law under:
Barack Obama
George W. Bush
38% got it right.

I got 10 right, and this is the one I missed.

It's the main reason I voted 3rd party............
Oh, and 11 out of 11

Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:47 pm
by andy7171
ASUG8 wrote:Skjellyfetti wrote:
And, it's really pathetic that one of the most missed questions was one with only two possible answers...
Was the government bailout of banks and financial institutions, also known as TARP, passed and signed into law under:
Barack Obama
George W. Bush
38% got it right.

I got 10 right, and this is the one I missed.


You ain't alone.

Re: Are You Well Informed? Take the Pew Poll
Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 12:47 pm
by death dealer
Goddamn! Only 5% of the country got all 11 correct? This country is populated by a bunch of morons!! Who the hell didn't know all these answers?