I took this fun science literacy quiz, and got 47 out of 50 questions correct.
The ones I missed were all in biology and life sciences, my weakest subject. Since so many of the angroids label climate skeptics as “scientifically illiterate”, and because climate change is specifically mentioned, I thought it would be fun to share and to have readers post their scores. Many of the questions are simple, like the first one:
Then there’s some tougher ones, like about Planck’s constant and some that require some simple physics math, F=ma and stuff like that. There’s a bit of irony in whose website the poll is on.
The Christian Science Monitor.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1209/Are-you-scientifically-literate-Take-our-quiz/
Surprisingly, there wasn’t a single question about climate change, even though they mention it. If you feel like taking it, don’t succumb to the temptation to look up everything on the Internet…there’s no sport in perfect scores.
comparative. Gads I’m getting lazy.
I got 44, though only cause it was late, I should have gotten at least a 46.
39
Made easier by:
a) multiple choice ( I have always considered this a poor way of testing someone’s knowledge of a subject)
b) a shaky knowledge of Greek and a distant memory of Latin.
Disgraced myself on the astronomical questions, depite all the familiar names, which I would
have bet beforehand would have been a reasonably strong suit for me.
However, not bad for an arts graduate who has never worked in any scientific field.
Thank you for the opportunity to feel good and big myself up a bit!
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Paul Westhaver says:
April 7, 2012 at 11:21 pm
Did Newton Number his Laws? I never remember them in order. Help me out here. Please tell me that my illusion is real….. that the numbering of Newton’s laws was done by some anal retentive actuary after the fact.
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In Book I of his Principia, Newton numbered his three laws of motion.
Jim
Oh…regards age of Earth data, the CSM is showing their biases, and ignorance. 4.5 Billion, yada yada…but Young Earth oughta be 5772, not +6000 (but who’s counting). Which just happens to be about number of years it would appear to be, as viewed from theoretical point of the Big Bang. {versus ~14 Billion yrs as viewed from this corner of the Milky Way, of course). Just saying.
44 out of 50 – I’m so ashamed…
And the website drove my laptop nuts. Refused to post my final score but I unfortunately remembered my embarrasing errors.
Interesting, I did zygote as part of sex education in primary school. Guess a liberal education isn’t so bad after all 🙂
I haven’t finished yet, but am on course for about 34, which for someone whose only science education for about 35 (!) years has been WUWT isn’t so bad I think. 🙂
You answered 0 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 0%.
Actually I only got a couple of astronomy questions wrong but I also routinely block text cookies and remove LSOs every second on principle… Why don’t they tell us when trackers are required to make web-stuff work?
There are also 19 embedded scripts on each page of this quiz… Is this this christian science or dancing with the devil?
42. I’m abated, as I failed some really easy ones, just because of not paying enough atention. Still, not too bad, I guess.
47/50. Going great until I hit a couple of biology questions … oops. I’ve dodged that branch of study, so I made a few guesses. Some of them missed too! But the physics (and applied maths), chemistry etc were just fine.
41. Seems to be the most common score here. But most of it was general knowledge or knowing greek roots. I wonder if all the 41-scorers got the same ones wrong.
My poor addled brain only managed :
You answered 41 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 82%. And about 4 of those were “intelligent guesses”
36 and very disappointed. There were about 6 answers where I changed at the last second and would have got my original pick right.
Still, 28 years since I studied much of this stuff at school. Not much call for a lot of it in database programming. (I was saved from a worse score by having memorised the periodic table up to Strontium whilst at school).
33 – not bad I reckon for an oldie who did no science after age 15. As with others, studying Latin & Greek helped.
Btw – it would be difficult to get 10/10 on the climate stuff, unless you know all the “correct” answers according to the warmist camp.
joep17901 says:
April 7, 2012 at 8:57 pm
41 out of 50.
I’m a little disappointed in myself.
Funny, that. I got 34, and I felt quite proud.
I got 40. Mostly failed in the astronomy and physics questions.
44 of 50 correct
My Latin/Greek let me down, and the Life Sciences!
I picked several correct answers only because I knew the other three were incorrect!
43 / 50 … at least I got all the biology and astronomy questions right – would have been pretty annoyed if I didn’t ….
I’m more than happy with my 39 (as a devout non-scientist but avid reader)!
A couple more were coin-toss guesses that I got wrong.
And I got “zygote”!
41 out of 50.
This explains entirely my hate-hate relationship with exams. I hate second-guessing my initial responses to find I was correct, off the top of my head. Each one provokes an ‘Arrrrghh!’
Got one WAG, missed another. My Table of Elements has wobbly legs. Indicates I should improve my carpentry skills.
Correct! (43 of 50 correct)
Not a bad little quiz to see how well rounded your science education is. Or to see how much more has happened since you left school.
Ugh, would have been 40 if I hadn’t blown 4 of them thinking there must be a cleverer answer..
..memo to self, give your memory the benefit of the doubt..
And a couple of dohs, I knew that. Still, very pleased, I was aiming for 50% and heard an audible sigh of relief when I got to 26 right and thought I had a chance of getting more..
36 out of 50, not bad for a 40 year old that mows lawns for living and hasn’t set foot in a science classroom since 1989 🙂
45, but one error was a mis-click! Not too bad, I guess.
With all of the stinkin’ ads, the website was way too slow for me, especially before my first cup-o-coffee. (May have been worse after the coffee.) And I just got really high speed service. If they’d post it somewhere without the stinkin’ ads, I’ll take it.