11/12 missed the boiling water question... and I lived at 6000 feet........!

When I did this the other day I thought most people on this site would get 12/12.

I got them all, but I work in science.

I take issue with the questions about the graph showing a correlation between sugar and cavities. Their answer is it shows "the more sugar people eat, the more likely they are to get cavities." I understand what they mean, but this sounds like they're saying post hoc ergo propter hoc. We don't know from the graph if there is a third factor that causes people to eat sugar and get cavities. Maybe the people who eat more sugar also eat less of some vitamin, and the lack of that vitamin leads to cavities.

I know the scientific evidence is sugar causes cavities, but based only on that graph we cannot tell if eating more sugar makes someone more likely to get cavities.

I'm one of your 6%-ers. It would be interesting if most of us were in the top tier.

Of course. I'm in the gulch am I not ;-)
But what is the bit about guessing?

Don't know how I did...my popup blocker kept the page from showing the results and when I disabled it, the page gave me an error message.
That must have been the REAL test!

Hello blarman,
12 of 12 correct! :) I found it to be a relatively easy and fun quiz. I love science. One confession: I could not recall the name of the developer of the polio vaccine, but thorough process of elimination I was able to deduce the correct choice.
Respectfully,
O.A.

12/12

Gee that was easy. Not a test, IMO. A test of reasoning then? How well do we do there?

Given the following two statements as premisses:
Logic is difficult, or not many students like logic.
If mathematics is easy, then logic is not difficult.

is it valid to conclude:
1)that mathematics is not easy, if many students like logic?
2)that not many students like logic, if mathematics is not easy?
3)that logic is not difficult, or mathematics is easy?
4)that mathematics is not easy, or logic is difficult?
5)that logic is not difficult, or mathematics is not easy?
6)that logic is difficult, or mathematics is easy?
7)that if not many students like logic, then (a)mathematics is not easy, or (b) logic is not difficult?

YES or NO
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)

If getting 11/12 basic science questions right puts me 82% above the public I am scared.

Perfect score. No guessing necessary. Most are easy to figure out with common sense and rudimentary knowledge of basic principles.

Got 10 of 12...maybe I'm not smarter than a 5th grader...

Got all of them right. This was pre high school information back in the dark ages when I learned it. [If you are curious about just when those dark ages were, do the math. I was in one of the first groups of elementary school kids to receive the Salk Polio Vaccine. I suppose this might qualify me as, "crusty," had I not been known to bathe regularly.] Newsflash! Students are STILL being intensively exposed to this information in upper elementary. Well...at least in the schools in those allegedly 'inferior' southern states where I was educated and still reside. Actually, the state & locally developed science 'common core' curriculums in these states are teaching more advanced physical science concepts than this at middle school levels It's not the quality of the curriculum anymore; it's the quality and motivational level of the students. Too many of them don't understand the concept of serious study, and teachers are kept too busy confiscating the high tech gadgets that serve as both their memory and entertainment. It's like the old saying goes with respect to learning anything, "First you have to give a shit."

11/12

Questions were pretty basic...took an educated guess on the polio one and got it right.
12 for 12 see link if you like but even though they were easy I still surprised myself.

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/scien...

Well, well. I missed four. But then, I never pre-
sented myself as a scientist.

12 of 12, except that they (1) postulated an incorrect predicate
when they said "... how the positions of the stars and the planets
can affect human life," and (2) they inserted "race" as a
category when "race" was not requested in the questions.

this tells me that Pew Research is leftist. -- j
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