while we're talking about science...
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:56 pm
My dad sent me this "Are you scientifically literate?" quiz from the Christian Science Monitor webpage, and I took it. It's interesting, and asks a wide variety of questions that cover most of the physical sciences. Scoring well on it doesn't mean one is a scientist - only that one has been paying attention. I am not a scientist, for example, but have always felt like I gave a crap about science, and paid attention.
It's 50 questions, and actually took me like 10 minutes to grind through, mostly waiting for page refreshes. I scored 45/50 for a 90%. One or two of the ones I missed I missed stupidly and should have gotten, but the other 3-4 were legitimate "I simply don't know" misses. Some won't have the patience or desire actually to go through it all, since it's fairly long, but I think it would be interesting to see how many of us on the board compare on it. If you take it, be honest, don't consult any source outside your brain and what you already know, and don't take longer than 10 seconds or so thinking about each answer. It's the kind of thing where you either know it, or you don't, and that shouldn't take 10 seconds to figure out.
It's 50 questions, and actually took me like 10 minutes to grind through, mostly waiting for page refreshes. I scored 45/50 for a 90%. One or two of the ones I missed I missed stupidly and should have gotten, but the other 3-4 were legitimate "I simply don't know" misses. Some won't have the patience or desire actually to go through it all, since it's fairly long, but I think it would be interesting to see how many of us on the board compare on it. If you take it, be honest, don't consult any source outside your brain and what you already know, and don't take longer than 10 seconds or so thinking about each answer. It's the kind of thing where you either know it, or you don't, and that shouldn't take 10 seconds to figure out.
