Science Quiz: How many can you guess correctly?
Twelve Questions. Wide range of topics. How do you score? Are you in the six percent who got them all correct?
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Just general knowledge if you ask me. But then I was schooled before the Dept of Education came about and I actually learned something.
But I kind of question (or resent) the title, because I didn't GUESS at ANY of the questions to come up with (ALL) the Correct Answers.
I recall being taught that boiling water thing, but that was so many freaking years ago.
Missed a couple of others.
We might consider a contest as to who is crustier. Personally I can't stay in one place more than 30 minutes without forming a crust.
Such underwear would become so crusty that they'd come alive and run around doing stuff.
I know that makes no sense.
It was just the way some wacko dude told those nonsense jokes when I was at a military school in Florida.
A couple of years ago I read that the essence of humor is the unexpected.
"Now take my wife--please!" is only funny the first time you hear it combined with the set-up beforehand.
you are taking a shower, they might need a wash job. -- j
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There's some who don't think my old dino brain has any common sense stuff.
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this is another world and very few know about its beautiful
intricacies!!! -- j
p.s. how about this history explanation?:::
http://get.smarter.com/qa/science/uni...
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high-school grads would miss more than 5. -- j
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BTW, "amplitude or height of a sound wave"? A sound wave has no "height", since it's a compressional wave.
Then, there's the one about the physicist, engineer and mathematician in a hotel that catches fire... :)))
But they were pretty basic and easy.
From the Intro To Business Law class...
The "right answer" is usually "It Depends," followed by your reasons for taking either, any or both sides of the alleged 'argument.'
Still useful in socio-political-economic-religious "discussions."
:))))))
However, I didn't like the sugar or nuclear power/weapons question. The answers were not clearly correct.
1. The sugar one does not provide adequate data for a conclusion. It is simply a correlation, and not a great R value.
2. The nuclear weapons one asks this of the elements is "required" for both. It is quite possible to make both a nuclear weapon and a nuclear reactor without uranium.
Interesting that "Asian" was left off the ethnicity demographic. Suspect we whiteys would be disappointed in our ethnic superiority here.
I hadn't seen this book. Looks interesting. Hilarious that it drew such attention, and the people deconstructing the conclusions are doing so with logical/mathematic arguments that only the top two IQ categories are likely to follow. Even more interesting the deconstructing arguments assert the statistics are fallacious, but they are far stronger than the statistics for global warming and many statistics regarding income disparity. Clearly these are made to appeal to ready-made targets. I will have to read this. Thanks.
A better test would ask, "Compute, by hand, the Fourier transform of this set of data points." Or "Name at least half the first 94 chemical elements." Or "Illustrate the mean, standard deviation, skew and kurtosis in hand-drawn graphs. Compare these measures to the physics of rotational inertia in simple terms." Or, "Explain, without conducting experiments, why it is a dreadful idea to mix bleach with ammonia or with vinegar. Give some of the possible reactions."
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Ah, db... any problem with that kind of information Actually Belonging in Both Studies? :)
In their books, the authors have actually tried some experimental methods to try to discover root cause in a useful way, but from all I've seen, the Major People in Economics start with their Beliefs of How Things Should Be and then write column after column in the mainscream media trying to get everyone to agree that if Everyone Did It Their Way, All The Problems Would Be Solved...
That's not experimental, nor imnsho, 'scientific.'
Paul Krugman is one of my favorite examples.
Economics tends to be backward-looking, often inferring a driving force that supports the economic philosophies of the economists. I view most Global Warming "consensus" the same way.
Experiments in Economic Theory (scientific-style, that is) are extremely hard to create... partially because unless they're kept totally in the dark, the 'control group' would often object to their circumstances.. :)
The element introducing chaos into these experiments is people (sociology), and beyond the fuzzy statistical nature of people's response, the data is clouded by politics and politician's manipulating the data. I find this quite like the churches manipulation of evidence to maintain power. This complication does not mean the study is impossible or unscientific. It does contribute to complication and unscientific manipulation.
I've quoted and defended and proselytized Friedman over the decades, too! Met him in person, once, too. Tried to coax him into making a free-market position comment to a very liberal group and he refused. Pissed me off. Still love him. Remember, Friedman was just a wee bit pre-internet, so The Ways Experiments Can Be Run On People have changed a bit, too... :)
I have a fond memory of a graph he did when writing for what I came to call "ANTI-BusinessWeek" magazine... a graph implying that whenever 'government' does something to change or provoke the economy, the real effects are not noticeable for 12-24 months or so later.
Just what was and is needed in the fruit-fly attention-span typical today in mainscream media and voters.
Oh, well... I turn 70 in two months. Won't have to up up with that shit much longer.... just gonna try to have fun....
You probably deserve a break at 70, and please do have fun.
The joys of being a human... :)
The line is more like a Least-Squares Fit to describe the average correlation between the two... which is the 'answer' or 'indicator' that when one increases, the other tends to increase.
I was surprised. The questions seemed very easy.
This is pre High School level.
But I did go to Ethical Culture Fieldston, Class of 1978- where I took Bio, Chem, Physics (in the same lab as Oppenheimer) and AP Bio... I can't believe how ignorant most people are here in the US. Wonder how many know what glycolysis and oxydative phosphorylation are?
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Though I wonder....
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