Are you smarter than a politician? Take a quiz. (11)

1 Name: Citizen : 2008-11-26 22:20 ID:VJRdebJj

The test: http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

According to Yahoo! News,

"WASHINGTON (AFP) – US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday.

Ordinary citizens did not fare much better, scoring just 49 percent correct on the 33 exam questions compiled by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI).
"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081120/od_afp/ushistoryeducationoffbeat

I'm Finnish and still scored 78.79% (i.e. got 26 out of 33 correct) on that test, and many of the questions were exclusively America-related.

2 Name: Citizen : 2008-11-26 22:33 ID:xduRYqoK

Pretty sad.
I'm American and got 94% (31/33).
People are stupid.

3 Name: Citizen : 2008-11-26 23:27 ID:BJGxYLwE

32/33
The test is okay. I'm happy that the economics questions aren't free market wankfests.

Could a statistically inclined citizen comment on whether or not the survey is on firm enough ground to be useful for inferential statements?

4 Name: Citizen : 2008-12-01 15:32 ID:XTwtAdTF

I am simultaneously amused and terrified to my very marrow that elected officials on average scored significantly lower than randomly selected citizens.

When William F. Buckley said "I would rather be governed by the first one hundred names in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard University," perhaps he was on to something.

5 Name: Link48010 : 2009-03-13 04:17 ID:EhpMwlJb

32/33

I've known for a while that I'm smarter than most politicians actually >_>, ACT scores are a good gauge of that.

6 Name: Citizen : 2009-03-13 08:12 ID:Heaven

28/33.

>>5
Your username and two-bit japanophile smiley says otherwise.

7 Name: Link48010 : 2009-03-13 23:50 ID:EhpMwlJb

>>6
I don't know what your trying to get at. Are you saying that I lied because I used a cheap smiley?

8 Name: Citizen : 2009-03-16 01:51 ID:Heaven

>>7
I think he was trying to imply that you're stupid, and he succeeded at it.

9 Name: Citizen : 2009-03-17 00:52 ID:Heaven

>>8

ZING

10 Name: Citizen : 2009-03-20 22:53 ID:Heaven

15/33, but I'm not American.
Can I have my presidency now?

11 Name: Citizen : 2009-04-09 18:03 ID:Heaven

You answered 20 out of 33 correctly — 60.61 %
I'm french.

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