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.
(40 of 50 correct) Biology is not my strong suit. How is anybody, not in the field, supposed to remember which moons orbit Saturn and which orbit Jupiter?
Rachelle says:
April 7, 2012 at 9:38 pm
“Leif says: “They did give as choices of the age of the Earth and the Universe the interesting number 6015 years.”
I imagine you already know this corresponds to Bishop Usher’s estimate.
It has been ridiculed, of course, but if one begins with the once generally accepted postulate that the Bible is literally true then the calculation is a rational approach. At least it yields something that is falsifiable which is not always the case with religion.”
This made me think of the lifespan of Metusaleh so I googled around and, ahem, behold:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah
“Interpretations
For more details on this topic, see Biblical longevity.
[…]
Literal interpretations take Methuselah’s 969 years to be exactly 969 solar years. This conflicts with the current human lifespan. Some literalists suggest possible naturalistic explanations: the patriarchs had a better diet, or a water vapor canopy protected the earth from radiation prior to the Flood.”
Just for the amusement.
29/50 The way I figure it, good enough to recognise BS.
I was doing almost perfect up to the last quarter of the test where I ran into a divergence problem and scored 40. So, can I call it 50 anyway?
Yeah, I did this a couple of weeks ago. 46 out of 50, I think, and it’s been more than four decades since I finished hammering for my baccalaureate in Biology.
Specialized study in med school, clinical training, and continuing medical education in practice are not more than superficially “pure science” activities.
37/50. About 6 of them that I got wrong I actually did know at one point, but couldn’t remember. A seventh one I missed by sheer stupidity. Forgot that there is decameter before centimeter. DOH! The name itself should have tipped me off.
Fun stuff. There were a lot of different areas. I’m more into math, but nice to see I still remember some of the course material I took way back when.
Damn! only 33 out of 50, but hey, I’m an artist and used my imagination to come up with some creative answers. I knew the moons of Jupiter but for some reason I said Saturn??
At 6:29 AM on 8 April, Smokey said:
I dunno that his lousy grade in an undergraduate “military class” (which is what we used to call all those “General-Whatever” courses we science majors were forbidden even to audit because our helpless laughter freaked out the Liberal Arts majors) indicated “inferior intellect” as much as it showed up the Algore’s massive contempt for the implacable grinding evidence-driven integrity of scientific method at even that larval stage in his development as a parasite of the political class.
Don’t mistake for abject stupidity that which is in Algore’s makeup a much more reliable marker of his feral cunning.
Not fair, there weren’t any C++ or Microsoft Foundation Classes questions. 🙁
Anyways, I could have had 5 more correct if I thought about the questions just a little bit longer.
And I didn’t study much biology, nor dinosaurs. And my math books not once used that word for an unequal triangle. I have seen h used in the Quantum Mechanics book I have been studying, but I don’t recall the author mentioning who it was named after.
I may not be smarter after doing this quiz, but I am more knowledgeable. 🙂
One question I got right because I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey recently, and its sequel, 2010 🙂
Thanks Smokey for your encouraging words. I failed the test but passed the try.
49/50, but now I know what the suffix nimbus means. That was worth having to deal with the frustration of having to click forward 100 times. Surely they can come up with a better structure for a web quiz.
At 6:35 AM on 8 April, John W. Garrett had griped:
You, bubbeleh, are not a science fiction fan.
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45/50 I should have studied Classical Greek and not done the nano question in my head.
I assumed I got the first question correct, and projected that to a final score of between
50/50 and as much as 100/50.
35, but I am only 18 so not bad.
I did very well considering my farming and logging degrees. Most likely because I retain alot of what I read (how else would I know zygote and mitosis?). As for scientific knowlege, you all here are far and above me. And that is why I`m here. To gits me some knowlege. Thanks to y`all my ammo pouches are full to the brim and ready to fiire away in my debates (arguments) with the agw and other agendistas crowd. Again, many thanks. By the way, nice comment Smokey!
GRD
Correct! (49 of 50 correct)
Missed the meiosis/mitosis question.
I only got 44 out of 50. It was a fair test of general knowledge, and anyone that got high scores is well versed overall. My biggest set of errors was also the biology field.
40, with a bunch of stupid mistakes, countered I must confess, by a string of lucky guesses!
Lew Skannen, comment number 3, nails it. I am sure that you used an IPCC model, Lew.
18/18 then I lost my connection.
LOL @ur momisugly Lew.
46/50 – I should have re-read the question about the largest moon of Saturn – I knew very well what it was, but I second-guessed myself.
…and I’d like to know exactly what proportion of practicing physicians would get the base pair question right.
As for Newton’s numbered laws, I figured it went from simplest to more complicated. I got that one right. I got zygote right because I keep rereading the first chapter of Greys Anatomy. One day I hope to start reading chapter two.
http://www.bartleby.com/107/
TO TRULY TEST YOUR SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE 🙂
http://climaterealistponderings.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/advanced-scientific-quiz/
Well, I took the test and was not satisfied with my score. I proceeded to weight the questions by category and then smoothed the results. That was a little better, but not good enough. Subsequently I then used a smaller sample of the questions and extrapolated the rest and it got even better. Once I homogenized those results I was satisfied. Unfortunately, the darn Thunder Lizard kept me below the 90% level.
I do believe the CO2 levels have a linear relationship to my score, so in a few more years I should have a 50.
Thanks for the fun Anthony.