Very interesting quizzes

cheri1122 · May 2, 2013

http://features.pewforum.org/quiz/us-religious-knowledge/?q=16

I was actually surprised that I did that well, as several questions related to Biblical characters I don't know much about - but what surprised me most was that only Jews tested higher than atheists/agnostics.
Real food for thought there.

Science and Technology Knowledge Quiz | Pew Research Center

I scored better on this one [80% correct] but didn't think to save the page.
Take them, I dare y'all!
Seriously, it's good to find out what you actually know, and what you just think.

Dreamer · May 2, 2013

That was interesting. I had 80 % on the religious knowledge.. and a 100% on the science knowledge.

Dale

LDB · May 2, 2013

You answered 14 out of 15 questions correctly
for a score of 93%. on the religious quiz

On the science quiz I misread one and didn't know one so I had one wrong but two incorrect.

cheri1122 · May 2, 2013

80% on the science test was just one wrong answer, lol. I got 73% on the religion, which was 2 wrong answers - damifino why I thought most Pakistanis are Hindu!
Yep, that was just dumb.

LDB · May 2, 2013

Luckily there wasn't a math portion. For 80% to be one wrong that would mean 5 questions. There were 13 questions in the science test. One wrong would be 92%. There really wouldn't be an 80%. There'd be 92, 85, 77 and so on.

Turtle · May 3, 2013

Well, it's Biblical Math.

Monty · May 3, 2013

You answered 12 of 13 questions correctly.

Really? I thought hydrogen was the most common gas in our atmosphere.

xmudman · May 3, 2013

Bagged a 100% on the Science test, and a 93 on the Religious Knowlwdge test. My wrong answer was about the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ; as a Protestant I believe them to be symbols, as opposed to the Catholic answer sought in the quiz.

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RLENT · May 3, 2013

Scored 87% (13 out of 15) on the Religious quiz (muffed it on the Nirvana and the Great Awakening questions) and 100% on the Science quiz.

cheri1122 · May 3, 2013

LDB said:
Luckily there wasn't a math portion. For 80% to be one wrong that would mean 5 questions. There were 13 questions in the science test. One wrong would be 92%. There really wouldn't be an 80%. There'd be 92, 85, 77 and so on.

Hey, I didn't make up the scoring system!
Now that you know all the answers, take it again, and make one answer incorrect, and see if it doesn't say 80%.
I felt robbed, lol.

AMonger · May 4, 2013

Turtle said:
Well, it's Biblical Math.

If it were biblical math, it would be infallible.

scottm4211 · May 4, 2013

AMonger said:
If it were biblical math, it would be infallible.

It'd stop at 5000.

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Humble2drive · May 4, 2013

My results from the science test:

You answered 12 of 13 questions correctly.

You scored better than 85% of the public, below 7% and the same as 8%.

My results from the religion test:

You are going straight to hell!

Humble2drive · May 4, 2013

cheri1122 said:
. . . but what surprised me most was that only Jews tested higher than atheists/agnostics.
Real food for thought there.

According to the Executive Summary, Atheists and Agnostics had the highest scores on the actual survey.

Executive Summary

Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons are among the highest-scoring groups on a new survey of religious knowledge, outperforming evangelical Protestants, mainline Protestants and Catholics on questions about the core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions.

On average, Americans correctly answer 16 of the 32 religious knowledge questions on the survey by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. Atheists and agnostics average 20.9 correct answers. Jews and Mormons do about as well, averaging 20.5 and 20.3 correct answers, respectively. Protestants as a whole average 16 correct answers; Catholics as a whole, 14.7. Atheists and agnostics, Jews and Mormons perform better than other groups on the survey even after controlling for differing levels of education.

So the "food for thought"? Perhaps Atheists and Agnostics arrive at their conclusion after thoroughly educating themselves about religion and not out of religious ignorance as some may believe.

AMonger · May 22, 2013

Humble2drive said:
So the "food for thought"? Perhaps Atheists and Agnostics arrive at their conclusion after thoroughly educating themselves about religion and not out of religious ignorance as some may believe.

It's rebellion, whether they realize (or admit) it.

cheri1122 · May 22, 2013

AMonger said:
It's rebellion, whether they realize (or admit) it.

Intelligent, knowledgeable, and principled rebels are the stuff the US of A was made of.

skyraider · May 23, 2013

cheri1122 said:
Intelligent, knowledgeable, and principled rebels are the stuff the US of A was made of.

I think they call them expediters.

Ragman · May 23, 2013

skyraider said:
I think they call them expediters.

Just not those on EO.

TruckingSurv · May 23, 2013

100% on both!

TS

AMonger · May 23, 2013

cheri1122 said:
Intelligent, knowledgeable, and principled rebels are the stuff the US of A was made of.

However, our forefathers believed rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. I think it was Tench Coxe who said that. So it wasn't God against Whom they were rebels.