12. I think the selection bias would be stronger on this one. Also, they're much easier questions.
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Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 11/12/2009 08:07:50 AM

And people actually did much better, with fully 10% answering all 12 correctly - link for it at the bottom, and the vast majority able to answer more than half correctly, considering the questions I'm fairly impressed.
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Test Your Political IQ.....
11/12/2009 12:49:31 AM
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Me Too!
11/12/2009 12:58:33 AM
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Pretty amazing that only 2% of respondents got all 12 questions right.....
11/12/2009 01:09:09 AM
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Because we're politically obsessive?
11/12/2009 03:58:28 AM
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Only 24% of people understand what cap and trade is.
11/12/2009 04:09:36 AM
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12/12. Of course, I'd probably do worse if it weren't current events. *NM*
11/12/2009 02:35:30 AM
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There's also a science one, on the same site
11/12/2009 04:13:05 AM
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only missed the one about mars
11/12/2009 04:27:22 AM
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12. I think the selection bias would be stronger on this one. Also, they're much easier questions.
*NM*
11/12/2009 08:07:50 AM
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I don't agree, actually.
11/12/2009 10:34:36 AM
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It was a lot easier due to not having more than one america specific question. *NM*
11/12/2009 11:23:41 AM
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12 for 12 again! Me smart! Are there any others we can take?
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12/12/2009 05:07:56 AM
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11. Didn't know DOW, surprise, surprise. *NM*
11/12/2009 05:02:49 AM
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Me too. Either. Whatever. Capitalist scum can keep their meaningless statistics *NM*
11/12/2009 04:52:44 PM
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Like it or not, that number is all too meaningful for every American. And non-Americans, too. *NM*
11/12/2009 05:01:57 PM
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actually, that number is pretty damn meaningless for the average american
11/12/2009 05:24:07 PM
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You're dead wrong. That number influences all sorts of things that affect people, whether...
11/12/2009 05:32:01 PM
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Influential, yes. Readily known and called to mind, not so much.
11/12/2009 06:33:19 PM
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I think it's a good example of how demographics can have an unexpected bias
11/12/2009 07:28:07 PM
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Eh? No mention of newspapers? Am I alone in getting most of my news by reading an actual...
11/12/2009 08:06:26 PM
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9. I haven't been paying attention to recent events. Two of them were statistics, unsurprisingly. *NM*
11/12/2009 08:06:15 AM
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11 - hesitated on the Afghanistan question and then picked the wrong one.
11/12/2009 10:37:21 AM
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6, and above average. Not bad for an Aussie with no interest in American politics.
11/12/2009 10:41:57 AM
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12/12. It's scary that 98% of people can't get it right.
11/12/2009 01:53:19 PM
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Perhaps...
11/12/2009 04:35:01 PM
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5% of the replies here. I doubt 5% of the replies at that site are from non-Americans.
11/12/2009 05:21:44 PM
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11/12 - I didn't give the official, read bullshit, number for unemployment. *NM*
11/12/2009 04:57:44 PM
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12 of 12, but besides the geography question, people should know those answers through osmosis.
11/12/2009 05:45:43 PM
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12/12 , im not surprised that alot of us got them all right, we are a pretty political group *NM*
13/12/2009 02:29:14 AM
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