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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by Ronja » Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:19 am

Pappa wrote:Why the fuck have they chosen to use the most time-consuming way of completing a multi-choice quiz? :lay:
To look better in Internet popularity statistics? Alexia or whatever the name of that site was that follows how many visits each site gets, how long people on average stay, etc.
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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by Atheist-Lite » Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:35 am

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Pappa wrote:Why the fuck have they chosen to use the most time-consuming way of completing a multi-choice quiz? :lay:
To look better in Internet popularity statistics? Alexia or whatever the name of that site was that follows how many visits each site gets, how long people on average stay, etc.
They also would know the test will attract aspie anal types who'd stay until the end with a multiple choice trivial science test....they intelligently targeted their audience. :smoke:
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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by Svartalf » Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:57 am

'cause they are web design illiterate?
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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:38 am

JimC wrote:48 out of 50...

Kicked myself over the two I got wrong...

It is precisely the sort of quiz that science teachers should get 100% in...
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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:38 am

Svartalf wrote:'cause they are web design illiterate?
But the site shows clear signs of an intelligent designer. :mod:
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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by Svartalf » Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:33 pm

Wow, backhanded insult disguised as a compliment; well played sir :clap:
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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:35 pm

Svartalf wrote:Wow, backhanded insult disguised as a compliment; well played sir :clap:
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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by Geoff » Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:50 pm

I lost interest about halfway through, partly because it was too easy, partly because of how slow it was. None of the questions I came across were further advanced than basic school science. I passed it to both my kids, and they said much the same, though neither consider themselves particulary scientifically literate.
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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by HomerJay » Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:44 pm

Quiz results
46
Correct
4
Wrong
You answered 46 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 92%.

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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by HomerJay » Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:50 pm

Approximately how old is the Earth?
How do they know it's not 6015 years old?

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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:51 pm

HomerJay wrote:
Approximately how old is the Earth?
How do they know it's not 6015 years old?

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Because the Last Thursdayists told them it wasn't.
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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by maiforpeace » Sat Jan 07, 2012 3:09 pm

Pappa wrote:Why the fuck have they chosen to use the most time-consuming way of completing a multi-choice quiz? :lay:
It's really a quiz to see how patient people are.
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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by Santa_Claus » Sat Jan 07, 2012 4:49 pm

50 questions? I can't even count that high........

Fortunately my Atheism does not rely on science - simply a basic understanding of human nature.
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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by Pappa » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:41 pm

maiforpeace wrote:
Pappa wrote:Why the fuck have they chosen to use the most time-consuming way of completing a multi-choice quiz? :lay:
It's really a quiz to see how patient people are.
Well then I scored a 4.
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Re: Are you scientifically literate?

Post by normal » Sat Jan 07, 2012 6:12 pm

I got a 35! But this was Trivial Pursuit, not scientific litteracy?
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