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Tough news IQ Test.

BLKSRT8BLKSRT8 Member Posts: 631 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
This is a terrific test. And it shows results in a number of ways. It surely indicates that the majority of Americans don't know what's going on.

It's astonishing that so many people got less than half right. The results say that 80% of the (voting) public doesn't have a clue, and that's pretty scary.
There are no tricks here -- just a simple test to see if you are current on your information.

This is quite a good quiz and the results are somewhat shocking.

If you get less than half correct, please cancel your voter registration ;-)

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/the-news-iq-quiz/
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  • reload999reload999 Member Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You answered 10 of 12 questions correctly.

    You scored better than 92% of the public, below 4% and the same as 4%.

    I missed the minimum wage...didn't have a clue, and I missed what we spend the most money on.
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  • victorj19victorj19 Member Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Also got a 92%. Missed the questions on ebola and largest Govt expenditure.
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  • SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The only one I missed was the one about the poverty rate here in the USA.

    However I do not agree with the OP surmise that this quiz is a good evaluation tool for ones ability to make a good voting decision.

    This quiz deals primarily with current events as reported by major media which has little to do with ones knowledge of our system of government or what the proper separation of powers should be.
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  • mlincolnmlincoln Member Posts: 5,039 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I missed the poverty rate one too. I picked 35%. I just thought that with so many people getting food stamps and government benefits, that the government would consider a whole lot of people poor.
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  • BT99BT99 Member Posts: 1,043 ✭
    edited November -1
    12 for 12. Either 98 or 99 percent.
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  • sharpshooter039sharpshooter039 Member Posts: 5,897 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You answered 11 of 12 questions correctly.
    You scored better than 96% of the public, below 1% and the same as 3%.

    missed this one ,,,In which of the following predominately Muslim countries are there more Shia Muslims than Sunni Muslims?
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    11 out of 12. SS is more than the interest??? I find that one hard to swallow. But SS is $900 billion and interest is only (only) $252 billion.....
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  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That isn't an IQ test. That's a test of knowledge of current events.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    12 for 12,...not that it's anything to be excited about. We live in a country of idiots by and large.
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You scored better than 86% of the public, below 8% and the same as 6%.
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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    11 of 12. Thought poverty rate was greater than 15%.
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    11 out of 12. SS is more than the interest??? I find that one hard to swallow. But SS is $900 billion and interest is only (only) $252 billion.....


    I missed the same one.
    RLTW

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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,375 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    poverty rate burnt me [:I]
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  • jltrentjltrent Member Posts: 9,344 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A lot of smart people on this board.
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  • WranglerWrangler Member Posts: 5,788 ✭
    edited November -1
    Got 10 of 12.
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  • BLKSRT8BLKSRT8 Member Posts: 631 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by jltrent
    A lot of smart people on this board.


    +1 TO THAT, WOW.
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    11 out of 12. SS is more than the interest??? I find that one hard to swallow. But SS is $900 billion and interest is only (only) $252 billion.....
    Me to Capt.! I can't believe the debt is less...
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by pwillie
    quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    11 out of 12. SS is more than the interest??? I find that one hard to swallow. But SS is $900 billion and interest is only (only) $252 billion.....
    Me to Capt.! I can't believe the debt is less...BTW I only missed that one...
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  • bigcitybillbigcitybill Member Posts: 4,913 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by JamesRK
    That isn't an IQ test. That's a test of knowledge of current events.

    Agreed.
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  • RocklobsterRocklobster Member Posts: 7,060 ✭
    edited November -1
    I missed the Shia/Sunni one. Thought it was Afghanistan.
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  • babunbabun Member Posts: 11,038 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by BT99
    12 for 12. Either 98 or 99 percent.


    12 for 12 = 98 or 99 percent?????????????

    Either you or that bogus IQ test is wrong.

    as said it was a current events test, nothing more.
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  • JnRockwallJnRockwall Member Posts: 16,352 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
    11 out of 12. SS is more than the interest??? I find that one hard to swallow. But SS is $900 billion and interest is only (only) $252 billion.....


    I agree, I call BS because SS is paid into, no one pays into the interest of the debt.
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  • savage170savage170 Member Posts: 37,569 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    11/12 96%
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  • joshmb1982joshmb1982 Member Posts: 8,228 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I got 11 of the 12. Only one I missed was greatest expenditure. I guessed nation debt.
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  • gesshotsgesshots Member Posts: 15,678 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    You answered 9 of 12 questions correctly.

    You scored better than 86% of the public, below 8% and the same as 6%.

    [;)]
    It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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  • rongrong Member Posts: 8,459
    edited November -1
    8 out of 10.

    [:(]
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  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,115 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How you score on this test illustrates the fact that you can't trust media relative to politics and helps expose leftist media bias.

    IE: What is common core? BHO and the socialist left wants you to believe Common core may be a way to standardize, but in reality it is nothing more than an attempt by the federal government to influence and ultimately gain control of local education. Of course the media wants you to be dumbed down into believing otherwise.

    IE: The national unemployment figure. Obama and the socialists want you to believe the national unemployment rate is 6%. The real truth is unemployment is double that number. The socialist controlled bureaucrats changed the standards and socialist media is covering for them. If the media reported the real unemployment figures, Obama and the socialists would be voted out.

    There are questions that are neutral, just to make one think the survey is valid. The gender and age questions are irrelevant.
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  • CaptFunCaptFun Member Posts: 16,678 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Flying Clay Disk
    I only got 6/12. However, I only agree with 3 of the answers I got wrong. They were...

    5. Shia vs. Sunni - Iran (I answered Saudi)

    6. Minimum wage

    12. Federal Reserve

    I disagree with the three others I got wrong and believe the results are skewed. Those were...

    4. Unemployment - I said 9%, they allege 6%. I heartily disagree. They don't take into account all the people who have flat out given up looking for a job and/or welfare recipients.

    8. Gov't Spending - I said National Debt. They say SS, but the Gov't doesn't pay jack poop into SS!! So that one is flat wrong! (all they do is figure out how to steal from SS!!!)

    10. Poverty level - I said 25%. They allege 15%. I disagree.

    I guess I'm a *! ...that, or I don't subscribe to government manipulation of news and media spin!










    It did say Govt Reported Unemployment not the actual number. And I did go look up the spending question. They spend 900 billion on SS and $252 on interest payments.
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  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I missed the SS one too. Thought national debt. interest was higher.
    But what they spend they steal from us first.
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  • jptatumjptatum Member Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My results were exactly like sharpshooter.
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  • badchrisbadchris Member Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    10/12, missed minimum wage & poverty level.
    Enemies of armed self-defense focus on the gun. They ignore the person protected with that gun.
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