13 science questions

[BHopkins]

Woo Hoo! 13/13.

The test appears to be oriented to evaluating basic science understanding of the general public, not those with a science background. Many of these should have been learned in grade school and jr. high science classes. And for those of us that are too old for global cimate change and fraking to have been discussed when we were in school, all one needs to do is tune into the news once in a while.

It is a little disappointing how poorly some were answered. For example, the laser question. Even if one does not have a good understanding of how a laser works, one only needs to reason of what comes out of the end of a laser, and it ain't sound.

 

[jcwit]

WOW I feel good, got 13 out of 13. I'm 93% smarter than everybody else, of course I always knew that anyway.

 

[JHZR2]

Wow I feel dumber after taking that. Only 7% of the population gets all 13? Sad.

Guess my parents taking an active role in my upbringing and education did have some effect after all.

 

[morepwr]

12 out of 13.

 

[TrevorS]

This is less of a science test and more some basic fact retention and reasoning.

I think 10 year olds should probably get as many of them right as the average American.

 

[Sunnyinhollister]

I got 13 out of 13 - and this was before coffee! Do I get extra credit for that?

 

[InhalingBullets]

13/13 here, but what struck me as odd was the low scores of those over 65.

 

[surfstar]

"The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted March 7-10, 2013 among a national sample of 1,006 adults 18 years of age or older living in the continental United States (501 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 505 were interviewed on a cell phone, including 242 who had no landline telephone)."

The fact that we're clicking on a link to take a "scientific" quiz, will skew our results vs a random sampling.

I imagine the test score results would correlate with socio-economic status more than any other factor.

 

[TrevorS]

Originally Posted By: InhalingBullets
13/13 here, but what struck me as odd was the low scores of those over 65.


Me too, but it kind of made sense.

 

[440Magnum]

13/13

But then (back off man....) I'm a scientist.

It was actually pretty simplistic- I'd expect (well... HOPE) that very few people would miss more than a few. But there are some recent technologies (nanotech, fracking) that an over-60 non-technical person might legitimately not know. And a handful of things I wouldn't expect people with a non-technical background to know.

The results histogram isn't skewed that much further to the low end than I'd hope.

 

[dparm]

13/13. I was intrigued by the results at the end as well.

How it feels to get a perfect score:

 

[gfh77665]

13/13.

 

[OVERKILL]

13/13 here. I expected it to be more technical too......

 

[ddrumman2004]

This 61 year old high school educated dummy got 13 of 13 correct.

Basic science is easy...

 

[JHZR2]

Originally Posted By: hemitom
Lets be honest here folks, how many of you guessed at some of your answers and got it right.


Not a single one. Sad if one had to guess at any, IMO. It really is basically retention of info as mentioned above, but that is what basic school-level science primarily is.

 

[gfh77665]

None. I have a technical background. Gas Chromatography is my line of work.

 

[JHZR2]

Originally Posted By: gfh77665
None. I have a technical background. Gas Chromatography is my line of work.


Varian, Agilent or another? Doing pfpd work on fuels was always a lot of fun to me.

 

[gfh77665]

Varians and Agilents, but mostly H-P 5890's.

 

[gofast182]

13.

 

[Toy4x4]

I missed this one, too, though I was torn on picking picking hydrogen over nitrogen. Got the other 12, though.