Do you Know more about Science than the Average American

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Do you Know more about Science than the Average American

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:26 pm

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:30 pm

......yes.
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Post by Tyrannical » Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:35 pm

100%, and I'm shocked only 7% get that right.
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Post by PsychoSerenity » Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:39 pm

According to that... easily yes.

Though I'm not sure how much I want to believe that study. Looking at the demographic breakdowns, to some of the questions some of the groups were worse than random. :what:
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Post by SteveB » Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:45 pm

I got the frackin' fracking one wrong! :fp:
If I had thought about it for more than half a second, I knew it would have been natural gas, because it sometimes comes out of people's faucets like in that documentary.
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Post by Ayaan » Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:49 pm

100%
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Post by mistermack » Thu Apr 25, 2013 5:52 pm

Only seven percent got all 13?

That's stunning.
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Post by Svartalf » Thu Apr 25, 2013 6:03 pm

Pffftttt, this is middle school level... how can only 7% of Merkins be able to get a perfect on that quiz?
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Post by rachelbean » Thu Apr 25, 2013 6:16 pm

I half-questioned some of my answers, but still got 100%. I find it hard to believe only 7% would get this correct, I think it may have been too small of a sample size.
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Post by Jason » Thu Apr 25, 2013 6:17 pm

I wasn't 100% sure on the Fracking question, but I reasoned it must be natural gas.

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Post by cronus » Thu Apr 25, 2013 6:18 pm

You scored better than 93% of the public and the same as 7%.

There weren't any hard questions. It is easy to forget how stupid most folks are....this is a reminder. :coffee:
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Re: Do you Know more about Science than the Average American

Post by Animavore » Thu Apr 25, 2013 6:33 pm

I know more about science than the average person in general. I'm sure the avergae American are a sub-set of that group :coffee:
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