Smarter than 90% of US citizens

[_aussieguy55]

http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/

I did this test and got 9/10

Try it yourself

[_Dr. Shades]

I got 8 out of 12, so I'm smarter than 86% of my fellow-Americans.

[_moksha]

I missed both the Google phone and the Prime Minister questions. What a hard quiz.

[_MrStakhanovite]

9/10

I got the national inflation rate question wrong.

[_Jason Bourne]

10/12 or 94%.

[_bcspace]

Smarter than 90% of US citizens

'Tis a heavy burden. Especially when one is actually smarter than 98% of US citizens. 11 out of 12. I missed the TARP question.

[_honorentheos]

I found it interesting that the questions were much more general than I expected. To have not included Tony Blair as an option on the prime minister of England question suggests this was not meant to be much more than a survey to determine if you had even the slightest inkling of what was being presented on politics in the news.

I scored 12 for 12, but don't feel it meant too much. I would have been able to give the percentage of unemployment to the nearest tenth of a percentage, for example, but had the inflation rate question been more detailed I would have likely missed it. If the Google question had been a "fill-in-the-blank" question I would have likely missed it too. I knew they had bought Droid after initially declaring they were not interested in getting into the mobile phone business, but I couldn't have come up with the name. It was just an educated guess at that point.

I found some of the demographic information interesting though. Unsurprised that the level of college one had also influenced how well a person performed. But I was a bit surprised that men out-performed women on all of the questions other than the national defense spending question. And that one was only by a couple of percentage points.

[_honorentheos]

Smarter than 90% of US citizens

'Tis a heavy burden. Especially when one is actually smarter than 98% of US citizens. 11 out of 12. I missed the TARP question.

Having now read the TARP question, this doesn't surprise me.

Does it matter to you that your bias influenced your ability to pick out and retain broad-brush details about information reported in the news? or that the news sources you listen to do not report that kind of information if you had not actually ever heard this?