The Pew News IQ Quiz- take the test

[Ichingcarpenter]

Pretty sad that people in my age and education group only got 50%
of the questions right. There are only 12 questions so the validity
of the test doesn't hold up to any normal statistical standards for
deriving the conclusions they seem to be suggesting. 12/12

I thought the questions were way too easy.
http://pewresearch.org/newsiq/

[slackmaster]

1. Missed the one on the DJIA

I misunderestimated it.

91%

[Delphinus]

2. I thought the number of casualties

was closer to 5,000, not four.

[Muttocracy]

3. think they need to update the ?s on DJIA and # killed in Iraq soon

I bet people did worse on those ?s because they picked the next closest answer, not a wildly wrong guess.

[TZ]

4. No for the average american, sadly

Some of those questions are difficult. Especially the numeric values of Dow Jones..alot of people don't pay attention to that.
I think the quiz while short is pretty legitimate. I',m betting a whole lot of people don't know whom Ben Bernenke is.

I have a relative who does work for Pew so I can tell you, I'm well aware of the general attitudes in polls like this..

[whistle]

5. It's a current political news awareness test

...97 percentile

[Hydra]

6. Missed the Oprah question

I have to admit that I don't care which celeb is backing who :evilgrin:

[Toucano]

38. Interesting that that question is the one most people got right.

And the Harry Reid question was the most missed.

[skyounkin]

7. woohoo

83%. Missed the DJIA, and the whole independence from Serbia thing.

[AlCzervik]

8. 100% but that was a pretty easy test.

[spin]

41. I also answered 100% but...

news is my background noise when I'm on the computer looking at news.

[JuniperLea]

9. I missed one question... stock market... leads me to believe...

This questionnaire is outdated.

I bet McCain would fail miserably.

[Mojorabbit]

10. I missed the serbia

question. I picked the correct answer first then changed it. I should know never to second guess myself.

[underpants]

11. Got them all but I disagree with #10

the answer is Howard M*#$%^F#(*#^ DEAN!!!!

[Adsos Letter]

12. Got a 12/12...

interesting to note that questions regarding Iraq casualties and DJIA received the least amount of correct answers.

[Muttocracy]

19. I bet people picked 5000 or 10000 for those? nt

[LeftishBrit]

13. I missed three...

the Dow Jones one; the Federal Reserve one (thought it was still Alan Greenspan); and the DNC one (thought it was Rahm Emmanuel - I always tend to get the various party organizations confused with each other). Admittedly, I'm a foreigner!

[AndyTiedye]

14. One of The Questions Was Pretty Tricky

I mean, how can you tell that the Democrats have a majority in the House?
The Repiglickins still "win" almost every vote.

I got them all right, of course, but I'm kinda obsessed with this stuff.

[exothermic]

15. Crap, missed one but it didn't say which!

:shrug:

[emmadoggy]

22. On the results page,

look down the links on the left - there is one that says "how you did, question by question". Click that. :)

[exothermic]

26. ARGH...I missed the Dow question!

I hadn't really paid any attention the last couple days and I remembered it was under 11K the other day so I picked 10K. Oh well I don't feel too bad about that :D

[emmadoggy]

33. Me too.

:)

[ryanmuegge]

16. This is where the McCain myth comes from

The notion that he has an unquestionable advantage on foreign policy just because he was tortured over thirty years ago (which was good for the privileged rich boy; he deserved a little adversity) and fought in a completely unrelated war. Yeah, it's an absurd idea, I know, but the corporate media keeps drilling "war hero, war hero, torture, advantage on national security." This idea is manufactured. If the public was left to make up their own minds about this without the cable news tabloid channels, the the average American wouldn't even know he fought in a war, much less give him a completely undeserved advantage on foreign policy.

[ColbertWatcher]

17. 10/12

Although, the name of the party is Democratic, the dow is fluctuating so erratically lately and I don't know anything about Serbia.

OOps, good quiz (even though the questions seemed very simple), thank you for posting.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. I got all 12 correctly.

[notadmblnd]

20. I missed the Kosovo and bosnia one.

Here's Your Score: You correctly answered 11 out of the 12 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 91% of the general public.

[distantearlywarning]

21. I got 11/12.

I missed the one about Serbia.

[XemaSab]

23. 76%

:P

[emmadoggy]

24. 11/12 for me...

missed the Dow question. (I said 10,000).

[pscot]

25. The one I had to think about was, which party

controls the Congress. (irony)

[fascisthunter]

27. my God I Only Got 11/12

[Contrary1]

28. 11 out of 12 for me.

Missed the Dow Jones question.

[Ichingcarpenter]

30. I was gonna say 10,000 but its been hovering around 11 thousand

so I thought the 12 thousand would be more correct for today's answer.

[WilyWondr]

53. I missed the same one

I remembered it passing 12K on it's way down a while ago and so I thought maybe it was closer to 10K, but I didn't really think it was down to 10K.

I was sure about the others and this was the one where I really just guessed because I knew it had not passed 10K but I knew it was below 12K. I have been trying to not pay attention to the dow too much. When I do all I can think about is "if I had pulled my money out I would still have that money" or "if I had pulled that money out 6 months ago and then put it back in now"....which are not a happy thoughts :(

[MadrasT]

29. 11/12

too embarrassed to say which one I missed :blush:

[mitchtv]

31. 12/12 top 3%

pretty good for an oldster

[tpsbmam]

32. Ditto. With all that I read......

I'd have been pissed and doubling brain exercises if I hadn't gotten all of them!

[applegrove]

34. 9/12. I didn't know the Dow Jones question.

[EFerrari]

35. 11/12 because I don't understand or follow Dow Jones.

The other questions seemed very easy, though.

[Toucano]

36. The DJIA question isn't fair.

It's been a rocky week! :)

[spanone]

37. 12 of 12...where's my prize?

[AlCzervik]

39. they sent me a cookie, i'll split with you.

:toast:

[spanone]

43. thanks!!!

:party: :toast: :party:

[Z_I_Peevey]

40. 11/12

Serbia. I'm embarrassed.

[readmoreoften]

42. 12/12. But the Dow Question would've been different 2 days ago.

[RainDog]

47. 11/12 b/c I said 11 instead of 12 on the Dow - so 91%

It's really sad to see that women overall scored 39%.

[samsingh]

44. got 83%

[blogslut]

45. I did 83%

The questions did seem kinda easy.

[baldguy]

46. 91% - "missed" the Dow Jones question.

I picked 10000, they said it's closer to 12000 - but today it's at 11000 and going down.

[Danmel]

48. I got 12 of 12

Those were pretty easy questions

[TheCentepedeShoes]

49. 11/12

I clicked Bernanke as head of Fed Res instead of Paulson. Duh

Edit: or did I get that one right and miss the DJIA one? Double duh

[proud2BlibKansan]

50. 100%

You are right - way too easy.

[biscotti]

51. 12 of 12

Thanks for posting. Very interesting resulting averages.

[Riddler]

52. 12 0f 12. I think it's safe to say the DU'ers are many times over more

informed than the average person!

[TahitiNut]

54. Another 3%er here. (12/12) ... Males better than females, older better than young.

56 Ages 50+
48 Ages 30-49
30 Ages 18-29


Interesting. Especially interesting that the ONLY question females answered correctly more often than males was the Oprah endorsement of Obama.

[johnaries]

55. 11/12, missed the DJIA one like lots of others. nt

[Kip Humphrey]

56. 97th percentile with 100% correct answers. How does one achieve the 100th percentile, I wonder!