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NoNukes Inactive Member
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I was peaking into your curtains. Yes you did get the demographic questions wrong, but they did not even give you a correct choice to pick for gender.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.’ Galileo Galilei 1615. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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Jon Inactive Member |
Don't give them too much credit.
The school systems are broken and I can imagine most 5th and 6th graders failing a quiz like that.Love your enemies! |
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8563 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7
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they did not even give you a correct choice to pick for gender. Yah, and I looked for both "All the above", "None of the above" and "Don't know". Couldn't find either of the three. I blame the christian right for this blatant discrimination. What really gets my gall though were the age ranges. Mine's not there. We know age discrimination exists in this society but this is just plain wrong. Even a generic "Yes" would have been acceptable. Guess you just gotta take the good with the bad. Such is life in America.
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Larni Member Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined:
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I scored 13 but I got my age age sex wrong.
The above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer. -Attributed to Buzsaw Message 53 The explain to them any scientific investigation that explains the existence of things qualifies as science and as an explanation-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 286 Does a query (thats a question Stile) that uses this physical reality, to look for an answer to its existence and properties become theoretical, considering its deductive conclusions are based against objective verifiable realities.-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 134
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1473 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined:
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Oh all right, I got two wrong. I did think it was probably Nitrogen but I said Carbon Dioxide, and I put Infrared when I should have said Ultraviolet. I don't get out much these days and being over 70 maybe I have the excuse of an ossified brain. I'm sure you all can think of more interesting explanations.
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
Oh all right, I got two wrong. No big deal. Your score is still better than 75% of the general public. FWIW, I tutored a college student last week who was a bit tentative on a question about photons/sec for blue light vs. yellow light of the same intensity. (The student did get the question right though). You can alway go back and take that test again and report a perfect score!Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.’ Galileo Galilei 1615. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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onifre Member (Idle past 2979 days) Posts: 4854 From: Dark Side of the Moon Joined:
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I got 11 too
But, to qualify it, my asian girlfriend and I were taking the test together. So I may have done worse if left alone. - Oni Edited by onifre, : No reason given.
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ringo Member (Idle past 440 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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I had never heard of "fracking" but it was easy enough to figure out from the options given. I think I could have gotten the other 12 when I was 12.
I couldn't do a test for gender because I'm at the Public Library, so I had to go on memory.
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1473 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I'm sure I'd have gotten all of them when I was twelve too.
Maybe not fracking though.
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ringo Member (Idle past 440 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Faith writes:
I hope you're forgetting things naturally and not deliberately unlearning them.
I'm sure I'd have gotten all of them when I was twelve too. Faith writes:
Somehow, I associated "fracking" with something plus cracking - which led me to petrochemicals.
Maybe not fracking though.
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8563 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 4.7 |
I couldn't do a test for gender because I'm at the Public Library, so I had to go on memory. It's them christian fundies again, isn't it. So when you found a site more tolerant of direct empirical methods were your results as expected or is the p-value still too high? Edited by AZPaul3, : OK, this is the last one, I promise.
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
I couldn't do a test for gender because I'm at the Public Library, so I had to go on memory. Peeking is cheating. If you are going to peek at your junk, why not just google all of the test answers.Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.’ Galileo Galilei 1615. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
Oni writes:
But, to qualify it, my asian girlfriend and I were taking the test together. So I may have done worse if left alone. I am immediately thinking of the opening scene of "You Only Live Twice" starring Sean Connery....- xongsmith, 5.7d
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
NoNukes writes:
If you are going to peek at your junk, why not just google all of the test answers. Oh my goodness!!! is there a new definition of googling now?? How did I miss this? Gotta know - is this the better way?- xongsmith, 5.7d
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1053 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined:
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Before getting all smug about how easy the questions are and expressing mock outrage that anyone could get them wrong, it's worth considering that we're all chatting here on a science themed forum - suggesting that everyone here has an above average interest in science, and thus should be expected to do better than average at a test of science literacy.
I think it's more interesting to look at which questions people were bad at. Most of the questions were answered correctly by the majority, two by slightly less than half - only one did the overwhelming majority (4 out of 5) get wrong - the question about the most common gas in the atmosphere. Knowledge of this one seemed to decline with age as well. By contrast, the one that the highest number of people got right was about sun-tan lotion protecting us from UV. Do we have advertising to thank for this?
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