Are you science savvy?

I took this easy test. I am disappointed that people can do poorly on it.

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/

pilotbraden wrote: I am disappointed that people can do poorly on it.

Agreed.

Yeah. I was REALLY disappointed when I gave it to my students, and they didn't get all of them (what was it, 13 questions??) correct.

My only complaint was the plate tectonics question. The addition of "scientists say" or "the concept of plate tectonics teaches that" would have allowed for the Young Earth Creationists to answer that question in a way that showed understanding without acceptance.....my recollection is the current wording requires them to take a stand as to what is true or false about the age of the earth.

I got 12/13 correct. Stupid Nitrogen.

I got all 13 right, but I am brilliant though.

Chris

I'm a bit surprised that i got 13/13... I'm amused that i knew what fracking was.

It freaked me out when I got to question 14: are you male or female? How the heck does it know the correct answer?

Keith Tanner wrote: It freaked me out when I got to question 14: are you male or female? How the heck does it know the correct answer?

Yeah, it would have been better if they had a screen that said, "You're done with the quiz. We'd like to compare your score to people of the same gender and age" before asking that question.

"You scored better than 93% of the public and the same as 7%"

That test should be renamed "Are you barely aware of technology" because any one who is should have aced it with a 12 or better. It is a bad sign that the creators of that test felt it was for the savvy.

If you scored better than 93% of the public then maybe you ARE savvy. Savvy? I feel like a pirate saying savvy.

Are we all getting the exact same grades?

13 of 13 correct.

You scored better than 93% of the public and the same as 7%.

EastCoastMojo wrote: If you scored better than 93% of the pu pic then maybe you ARE savvy. Savvy? I feel like a pirate saying savvy.

I would trade both v's to get an 'xe' in that line.

Savvy is the new sexy

Bam, 13 out of 13, didn't have to use my brain for most of them. Some of those, you'd have to be scary-dumb to get wrong.

13 of 13. The low correct ratio on question 7 explains how people can get sucked into paying more to have their tires inflated with nitrogen.

13 of 13.

15/13 correct. (I knew my age and gender! )

I figured most of us here would be 7%ers, or be smart enough not to respond.

EastCoastMojo wrote: I got 12/13 correct. Stupid Nitrogen.

I made the same mistake.

13 of 13. Being a geek has other advantages.

EastCoastMojo wrote: Savvy is the new sexy

I predict a spate of girls-with-glasses in the GGA thread.

(...and of course, the counterpoint) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iog7dU6g9lQ

13/13 for me. Pretty straight forward to me.

Streetwiseguy wrote: 13 of 13. The low correct ratio on question 7 explains how people can get sucked into paying more to have their tires inflated with nitrogen.

I use a custom blend of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon with the rest being trace gasses.

12 of 13. Not smart enough to figure out which one I got wrong ....

13/13 ... my age group was the "smartest" in 2 or 3 of the questions ...but in one more yr I would have changed age groups and become the dumbest ... who knew that 1 yr could make that much difference