I'm pretty sure my head is going to explode if I spend any time on the basketball board today (are we an NIT team with a lousy coach yet? are we eviscerating individual players?), so I am counting on all of you to keep me distracted throughout the day.
"You'd be crazy NOT to!" -- Donagh Gilhooly, bartender and wisest of men
Last Edit: Dec 20, 2010 11:43:50 GMT -5 by tashoya
"HARRY SAXA!" - Elvado
"And John Thompson told me when I first got to school that if I wasn’t coming to graduate, there was no sense in coming to Georgetown." - Jerome "JYD" Williams
It's fairly easy, or should be for anyone here, but there are a couple of tough ones toward the end.
FTR, I got two wrong, the TARP question and the last question.
I don't feel too bad about getting the TARP question wrong, even though I should have known the answer. Of course I feel very stupid for getting the last question wrong, but at the same time, it's kind of a curve ball and I don't think it really measures your news IQ. But whatever.
Also, be prepared to be angry at seeing how few people can get even half of these right.
"You'd be crazy NOT to!" -- Donagh Gilhooly, bartender and wisest of men
It's fairly easy, or should be for anyone here, but there are a couple of tough ones toward the end.
FTR, I got two wrong, the TARP question and the last question.
I don't feel too bad about getting the TARP question wrong, even though I should have known the answer. Of course I feel very stupid for getting the last question wrong, but at the same time, it's kind of a curve ball and I don't think it really measures your news IQ. But whatever.
Also, be prepared to be angry at seeing how few people can get even half of these right.
OK, easy test and, FTR, I got them all right. More interesting, a couple of things to point out on the demographic breakdown of results ... not taking any position on these, just citing results:
1. Males scored higher than females across the board and on each question
2. College Grads scored higher than "Some college", who scored higher than "HS or less" across the board and on each question
3. 50+ scored higher than 30-49, who scored higher than 18-29 across the board. BUT, that pattern was reversed on the last two questions. Interesting. Especially the second last question. That result (age performance) surprised me.
4. Finally, fewer than 20% of respondents got the correct answers to questions #5, #7 & #9. Considering this was a multiple choice quiz, that surprised me too.
It's fairly easy, or should be for anyone here, but there are a couple of tough ones toward the end.
FTR, I got two wrong, the TARP question and the last question.
I don't feel too bad about getting the TARP question wrong, even though I should have known the answer. Of course I feel very stupid for getting the last question wrong, but at the same time, it's kind of a curve ball and I don't think it really measures your news IQ. But whatever.
Also, be prepared to be angry at seeing how few people can get even half of these right.
The results are depressing. I wish we could see the breakdown for how much each option got picked. I wonder how many people think that Richard Branson is the UK PM.
I got all of them right, although I was around 50/50 on a few of them.
"On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit.' And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high." -Ayrton Senna
So this is probably on this thread somewhere and I'm sure all you more internet/pop culture savvy people than I have already see it, but this site is freaking killing me:
Those results are both shocking and no real surprise.
Shocking that those in the business of politics would have such little grasp of our system of government, but no surprise in so much as elected officials represent the folks who elect them.
Look around the next time you're in the supermarket, the DMV line or at a ball game. When you see the morons around you, you will not be surprised at whom they elect.
