31 out of 33. Also was a bit puzzled by the pro free-market flavor of a few questions. I saw the ".org" and was wondering if they were trick questions.
30/33. Missed the questions about puritans, and the two questions about quote origins. This exam is basically meaningless. The only non-biased questions concern quotes and basic math problems. From the infinite set of questions under the topic of civics, the chosen factoids skew towards information that would be on average more likely known by those with traditional conservative leanings. Traditional conservatives/libertarians hate the new deal therefore they talk about it a bunch. Poor democrats have no idea what it is called - they just enjoy the benefits. Once again, another historical factoid most likely to be heard about from the echo chambers that are fox news, national review, newsmax, breitbart sites, drudge, etc. Correct Answer - Their arguments helped lead to the adoption of the Bill of Rights. Anti-Federalists are just so swell! Rah, rah, rah. Here both the question and the answer have a conservative bent. Bachman et al. love to talk about the federalists/anti-federalists and founder's intent. The question is also ambiguous, obviously the bill of rights was added to the Constitution, but it is not part of the original constitution. Another biased vague answer that was not listed but could possibly apply would be - Their arguments helped lead to a federal government unable to ban slavery. Once again a question that has a strong conservative bias in that Conservatives are more likely to read about abortion because they care more about it and their sources of news are more likely to cater to this interest and spent the time reporting on it as opposed to the perils of unbridled capitalism or the insidious effect of corporate speech on individual free speech. Communists threaten us all, Obama is a communist. Conservatives tend to get their panties in a wad over communism more than liberals do, hence Sputnik meant a little bit more to them and got on average more coverage in their media circles. The launch of Sputnik marked a high point in being afraid of the communist menace. With Obama being a communist/socialist/facist/muslim the frothing fear of communism is once again on the rise. This once again is an issue which the average republican would be more likely to have heard about than the average democrat. Evolution!? That's some dangerous stuff for our children. Communism! Be afraid. This is once again a right leaning question as conservatives care more about the perils of communism and our communist-in-chief. Obviously the institute creating this survey cares greatly about the perils of communism, state's rights, individual liberties (only economic liberties), and the free-market. Here we get the double whammy. Free enterprise good; communism bad! Again, a biased choice of question. Also the answer choices aren't so hot. eg. markets rely upon coercion, whereas government relies upon voluntary compliance with the law. While this answer is obviously wrong it is more obvious to the typical republican than the typical democrat because Libertarians/randians/fox news love railing about the coercive nature of taxation and police action by the federal government. The word choice of coercion is very telling as it only pops up more in the right-leaning lexicon than the left. Again a question that demonstrates a traditional conservative bias. On average more people from the right than the left hear about what the federal reserve does. A facile understanding of what the federal reserve does is a necessary condition to believing that we need to abolish it. This "exam" is a complete waste of time, but at least it gives us an excuse to celebrate our collective knowledge base and the collective D&D epeen.
27/33 Based on the replies on this site, is clutchfans' intelligence much higher than average? I really should have done better though? ------------------------------------------------------------- Name one right or freedom guaranteed by the first amendment. - It's just sad I missed this What was the main issue in the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in 1858? - I did LD debates in HS What was the source of the following phrase: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”? - I actually memorized 2/3 of the GA for extra curricular in schools A flood-control levee (or National Defense) is considered a public good because: - should'v thought this through Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that: - Still got an A in intro to philosophy freshman year of college In 1935 and 1936 the Supreme Court declared that important parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. President Roosevelt responded by threatening to: - Ok, this one have no excuses
Nerdiness? I find it embarrassing that the average college graduates didn't get at least 70% (a C) on this exam. The questions are not that hard. I suspect that people who scored lower than a 20 didn't post their results, so the CF scores seems skewed. I don't blame them.
I was going to write something about the bias of this thing but false did a better job. Terrible set of questions. That doesnt prove anything.
I don't understand why so many missed the gettysburg address question; I thought that was easy due to process of elimination.
31 out of 33 and yeah i missed the Gettysburg one. I find it hard to believe that college educators scored so low.
Eh, I mean aside from the bizarre-o phraseology of "college educators" - I can think of lots of people who would fit that definition, from football coaches to art teachers to chemistry researchers, who I wouldn't expect to recall (or in the case of international faculty, have ever learned) some of these relatively obscure items.
