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Pew has produced an interactive news IQ quiz. I scored 12/12, putting myself in the 99th percentile of people taking the test, even though there’s one question (number 9) that is a little ambiguous. I would expect that anyone reading this blog would get at least 10/12.
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Sean| 12.30.10 @ 10:47AM
I also got all 12 correct. Men average only 5.6 correct and women 4.5. There are a number of tricky questions. The inflation rate is pretty high to the average American who sees the prices on their everyday needs increasing.
Casey Abell| 12.30.10 @ 11:12AM
I got the "at least"...10 out of 12. Missed the last two. Maybe I got bored or something.
David W| 12.30.10 @ 11:30AM
got 9 out of 12. However, when looking at my answers somehow it put in answers I did not select (or I am getting too old to take on-line tests).
Have you considered| 12.30.10 @ 11:58AM
I also missed the last 2 Casey.
PCC| 12.30.10 @ 12:38PM
11 out of 12. Picked Medicare as costlier that Defense.
Dan Sudlik| 12.30.10 @ 1:23PM
Me too. It has to be close.
David T| 12.30.10 @ 1:43PM
Missed that one, too. Had in mind total HHS spending, which greater than total DOD.
Bruce Berger| 12.30.10 @ 4:10PM
Same here.
Flee| 12.30.10 @ 4:15PM
I missed the same one. Hard to believe defense leads in this case.
Occam's Tool| 12.31.10 @ 1:07AM
Me too--picked payment on debt as higher (will be eventually). Only 11/12. damn.
Bill| 12.30.10 @ 1:16PM
It would be interesting to see the political views of those who scored 10+/12.
mark| 12.30.10 @ 1:30PM
10/12. Pretty well-informed people on this website. I've always thought that American Spectator readers were more informed. What's discouraging is the uninformed members of the voting public who still believe that Repubs are the party of big banks, etc (rich). Anyone that believes that stereotype doesn't have a clue. The Democrats have long turned their backs on the common folk, though they stubbornly insist on stepping on them, Alinsky style, to get ahead.
Cheryl| 12.30.10 @ 2:25PM
10/12 - I picked 'interest on debt' as costlier and THEY had the answer for true unemployment as 10% when we all know it closer to 17% ( I opted for 15%) - although now I wonder if I read the question wrong...
JimH| 12.30.10 @ 3:44PM
12 for 12. A few questions were a bit ambiguous.
FJ Harris| 12.30.10 @ 5:28PM
1% inflation and 10% unemployment are laughable.
Big Jim| 12.30.10 @ 8:19PM
11/12. Guessed at the last one and got it wrong.
sybilll| 12.30.10 @ 11:37PM
12/12. Would have been 11/12 had I not known fuel and food are not calculated in inflation. (which is BS).
Steve in Pittsburgh| 12.31.10 @ 1:20AM
9 out of 12.
My q is, how can 86% of the population not get most of them right?
I guess our society is doomed.
cycler241| 12.31.10 @ 9:52AM
Got the one about gov't spending wrong. The irony. It's the only spending that's constitutional!
Christopher| 12.31.10 @ 11:13AM
11/12. picked medicare over defense.
kenny bunkport| 12.31.10 @ 11:28AM
11/12 embarrassed to admit i got the head of bp mixed up with the prime minister
i didn't find any question ambiguous