US Civic Quiz

[Eulor]

a sample of 2,508 Americans took this test and the average score is 49%.
We don't know how representative the sample is..

I got a 81%. I think we may have high scores in this forum

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

[Lackadaisical2]

13) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that:

What. The. Fuck?

EDIT:

this one too...

17) Sputnik was the name given to the first:

[Pope Joan]

ou answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

Average score for this quiz during April: 75.7%

You can take the quiz as often as you like, however, your score will only count once toward the monthly average.

If you have any comments or questions about the quiz, please email americancivicliteracy@isi.org.

You can consult the following table to see how citizens and elected officials scored on each question.

Where to from here?

Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #27 - A. the price system utilizes more local knowledge of means and ends
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

[Eulor]

ou answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

Average score for this quiz during April: 75.7%

Good job sir

[Scario]

I always ACE my CIVIC tests.
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[Maurepas]

I got an 84.85 %

Something's kind of off about this quiz though, 26, 27, 29, and 31 seem kind of pointless, or at least not having to do with the subject matter...

And, 25, and 30 seem rather ideologically driven...

[WWII History Geeks]

Yeah, I wondered about it too...

[Thethunderdome]

Lol, I said business model was cost minus revenue, which in retrospect is clearly wrong. I'm a chem major, cut me some slack! 32/33.

eta: 97%

[Panzerjaeger]

87.88 %

[Lackadaisical2]

You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

Just to note, I got correct everything but things relating to Lincoln, they were more random facts for much of the test than a civics related...

[Techno-Soviet]

75.76 %

Damn I'm average ; _ ;

[East Fancainia]

I got an 84.85 %

Something's kind of off about this quiz though, 26, 27, 29, and 31 seem kind of pointless, or at least not having to do with the subject matter...

And, 25, and 30 seem rather ideologically driven...

NO WAY!

[Maurepas]

Yeah, I thought something was wrong here, seems I was right, it has an Agenda:

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/20 ... mmary.html

Conventional wisdom holds that there is a strong connection between how much people know and how much college education they receive—the more college, the more knowledge. ISI’s research, however, demonstrates that on most campuses, this seemingly obvious correlation is quite marginal where knowledge of America’s history and institutions is concerned.
...
Major Finding 1:
While College Fails to Adequately Transmit Civic Knowledge, It Influences Opinion on Polarizing Social Issues
...

Being a college professor alters one’s worldview on propositions involving education, economics, religion, and America. If two people share the same basic characteristics, the one who has taught at the college level is more likely to agree that:

* America corrupts otherwise good people;
* The Ten Commandments are irrelevant today;
* Raising the minimum wage decreases employment;
* Educators should instill more doubt in students and reject certainty; and
* Homeschooling families neglect their community obligations.

And to disagree that:

* Legislators should subsidize a college in proportion to its students learning about America.

It's wanting to show that the liberal lefty colleges be bad, and against god...

[The Romulan Republic]

87.88%

[Doitzel]

You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %

Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity
Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person

Bah. Figures I get the one about Puritans wrong...

[JarVik]

27 out of 33 or 81.82%

Not bad for a Canuck I think.

Got 4,6,7,8, 11 and 14 wrong.

[Lancaster of Wessex]

90.91%, or 30 out of 33.

Not bad for a Canadian.

[Satyrstone]

90.91

[Ashlak]

66.67%

Average: 75%

.......Crap, I'm dumb.

[Free-Beings]

Yeah, I thought something was wrong here, seems I was right, it has an Agenda:

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/20 ... mmary.html

Conventional wisdom holds that there is a strong connection between how much people know and how much college education they receive—the more college, the more knowledge. ISI’s research, however, demonstrates that on most campuses, this seemingly obvious correlation is quite marginal where knowledge of America’s history and institutions is concerned.
...
Major Finding 1:
While College Fails to Adequately Transmit Civic Knowledge, It Influences Opinion on Polarizing Social Issues
...

Being a college professor alters one’s worldview on propositions involving education, economics, religion, and America. If two people share the same basic characteristics, the one who has taught at the college level is more likely to agree that:

* America corrupts otherwise good people;
* The Ten Commandments are irrelevant today;
* Raising the minimum wage decreases employment;
* Educators should instill more doubt in students and reject certainty; and
* Homeschooling families neglect their community obligations.
And to disagree that:

* Legislators should subsidize a college in proportion to its students learning about America.

It's wanting to show that the liberal lefty colleges be bad, and against god...

What obligations did I neglect?

[Querinos]

72.73 % Woohoo!

[Free-Beings]

a sample of 2,508 Americans took this test and the average score is 49%.
We don't know how representative the sample is..

I got a 81%. I think we may have high scores in this forum

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx

What was the standard deviation?

[JarVik]

13) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that:

What. The. Fuck?

I think this is from the Natural Law line of thought, one of the few things I "think" I remember from highschool Law class. I honestly think this makes more sense than many of the other questions they have.

EDIT:

this one too...

17) Sputnik was the name given to the first:

Easy, but yeah, what does that have to do with this???

[Greed and Death]

100% but some of the question appear to be attempting to influence policy rather then measure knowledge.

[Mighty Qin]

100%, no lie. I got 99th percentile on the LSAT and graduated high school at 15, if that helps the believability. Not to brag, I'm an unemployed living joke.