Are you scientifically literate?

[RandomGuy]

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1209/Are-you-scientifically-literate-Take-our-quiz/Composing-about-78-percent-of-the-air-at-sea-level-what-is-the-most-common-gas-in-the-Earth-s-atmosphere?cmpid=prc:sci:c&nav=A401438-csm_quiz-rcPromo

Got an 86%.


Not shabby.

The quiz runs the gamut of sciences, and is worth doing, just because you will probably learn something in the process.

[Wild Cobra]

LOL...

I'm so far 10 for 10, but question 10 seemed like a trick question. Coming from the Christian Science Monitor, I wanted to answer the 6015 years...

[Reck]

50 Question quiz? Nope.

[johnsmith]

LOL...

I'm so far 10 for 10, but question 10 seemed like a trick question. Coming from the Christian Science Monitor, I wanted to answer the 6015 years...

You rule the Internet!

[Wild Cobra]

Shit.

Misses two so far, half way through.

[Wild Cobra]

Missed 5 by the end. 90%. thought I would do better. Amazing how much one forgets over the years.

[AussieFanKurt]

got them all

[The Reckoning]

a little over 70%. meh.

aussie youre a lying sack of shit. man up.

[Wild Cobra]

got them all
Are you recently out of school? Been over 35 years for me.

[AussieFanKurt]

a little over 70%. meh.

aussie youre a lying sack of shit. man up.

Son when you in melb

[The Reckoning]

Son when you in melb

not anytime soon since im tied up in work. i could make it out there in june though but that's when it starts to get a bit chilly, and ill be in phuket in july. ill keep you updated. i might save my trip for the summer.

[Latarian Milton]

not understanding scientific scholars doesn't really mean nothing about your comprehension imho. fact is most scientists are foreigners or immigrants who probably have good knowledge in their professions, but are generally rather dumb in the language itself. therefore when you hard a hard time reading a scientific article, it might be the writer who's not literate rather than yourself imho

[Spur-Addict]

50 Question quiz? Nope.

[Drachen]

damn, only a freakin 76. that sucks

[Wild Cobra]

damn, only a freakin 76. that sucks
Well, many of them weren't all that easy. I'm a geek when it comes to thinks technical, and only got 90%.

[baseline bum]

92%. ick, I feel dirty being so close to WC's score.

[baseline bum]

50 Question quiz? Nope.

They're all easy. One question you have to solve F = ma, if you remember your 5th grade math.

[Wild Cobra]

92%. ick, I feel dirty being so close to WC's score.
LOL... I don't believe you. How many times did you use the internet for references?

[baseline bum]

LOL... I don't believe you. How many times did you use the internet for references?

:cry Good thing they didn't ask anything about climate sciences

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

92%. ick, I feel dirty being so close to WC's score.

:lol believing he actually got a 90% on it

[baseline bum]

:lol believing he actually got a 90% on it

I honestly don't think it's a stretch. Most of those questions are super easy and even if you don't know the answer you can just do dimensional analysis on the physics ones.

[DMC]

lol CSM..

where's the question about God?

[DMC]

It was an open book exam, Google accepted.

[Wild Cobra]

Wild Cobra also maintained that it was real.

Liar.

Link my quote else put a sock in it.

I don't recall maintaining it was real. I just know our Space program was real. I forget what I said in that thread, but I know I never maintained it was real. I probably just explained what probably was true, or explained a plausible answer. It wouldn't surprise me if the Chinese faked it, but I doubt they did.

[Fatfreddy88]

After looking at my latest moronic thread jacking shit - nobody actually agrees with me or gives a flying fuck. I am not just scientifically illiterate, I have the logic of a turd, the visual accuity of Stevie Wonder and am a stupid stubborn dipshit.

Anybody with an IQ of ninety or above is smarter than me. I have OCD and some mental disorder and am incapable of debate, understanding of anything and I label everybody who disagrees with me as a paid shill. My "hobby" is spamming the internet with debunked shite.

I scored 76% not too hot with the biology and historical questions.

[Fatfreddy88]

Hey I am a cu nt. Why don't I threadjack over some moronic claim where my only evidunce is some cables with shape memory and me bubblz that are pieces of ice.

You need psychiatric help you totally useless, braindead troll.

[Fatfreddy88]

My avatar.



http://www.allstatesign.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/small_image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/6/0/604_small_1.gif Cosmoron the dipshit troll, thinks that is a bubble.

[RandomGuy]

a little over 70%. meh.

aussie youre a lying sack of shit. man up.


Google always gets 100% ;)

[RandomGuy]

Hey RandomGuy

If I remember correctly, you maintained that the Chinese spacewalk was real in spite of the clear proof that it was faked in a water tank.

(post #3957)
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=144487&page=132&p=6317012&viewfull=1#post6317012

You're not one to be testing people's ability to analyze stuff scientifically.

Wild Cobra also maintained that it was real.

Let's hear some more opinions on this. This is a good test of one's ability to think scientifically.

I do not give a flying shit about your mental illness-induced fantasy world. I stopped trying to argue with your rather obvious schizophrenia over a year ago.

Please stop asking me to bump your threads. It is a bit pathetic.

Do get some help.

Or you could just take the test in the OP.

[Spur|n|Austin]

86% here, that was tougher than I thought it was going to be.

[Wild Cobra]

LOL...

I said Cosmoreds claim was wrong and he spams this thread instead of showing a link that claimed his words about me. No wonder he gets banned and gets posts removed.

[DarrinS]

I missed 4 -- all having to do with astronomy. I guess I need to learn the fucking moons of Jupiter. Lol

[DarrinS]

By the way, I don't think this test means jack shit. Mostly regurgitation of information. There are a lot of smart people out there that probably don't remember the periodic table.

[z0sa]

Ouch, a 58. I missed everyone that had to do with any mathematical formulas as well as a couple history ones.

[Wild Cobra]

By the way, I don't think this test means jack shit. Mostly regurgitation of information. There are a lot of smart people out there that probably don't remember the periodic table.
I didn't remember for certain the Radon question, and guess correctly.

[RandomGuy]

Hey FatFreddy, Wild Cobra, and RandomGuy

Why don't you all just tell everybody whether you think the Chinese spacewalk was real, or faked in a water tank?
These three know it was faked in a water tank but they have to agree with the official US government version of everything because they are three of the government disinfo agents that have been assigned to this forum.
That's why they're tap dancing around the issue.

This is science-related and this thread is about science so I think these three should answer direct questions about science.

Come on you guys. Tell us whether it was real, or faked.

I do not give a flying shit about your mental illness-induced fantasy world. I stopped trying to argue with your rather obvious schizophrenia over a year ago.

Please stop asking me to bump your threads. It is pathetic.

Do get some help.

Or you could just take the test in the OP.

[Drachen]

I do not give a flying shit about your mental illness-induced fantasy world. I stopped trying to argue with your rather obvious schizophrenia over a year ago.

Please stop asking me to bump your threads. It is pathetic.

Do get some help.

Or you could just take the test in the OP.

stop responding, be happy that someone is bumping your thread, and move on.

[elbamba]

My computer closed the test on question 7. Maybe it was telling me something. Most of the questions seemed historical as opposed to strictly scientific.

[ChumpDumper]

I was humming along around 80% with some lucky guesses when my browser crashed. Don't feel like starting over.

[Fatfreddy88]

Just for the crack, I redid the test and improved from 76% up to 98%. Am I more literate now:toast

[CuckingFunt]

I ended up at 90%. That's after several blind guesses that ended up being right and also a few questions where I talked myself out of the correct answers. A score in the mid- to high-70s would probably be a more accurate reflection of what I actually know/remember.

[RandomGuy]

stop responding, be happy that someone is bumping your thread, and move on.

I don't mind responding with a mindless cut and paste. Easy enough, and it does bump my thread.

Although I will probably simply add him to the short list of ignores very soon.

[Winehole23]

damn, only a freakin 76. that sucks39 of 50. I got a 78.

[Drachen]

39 of 50. I got a 78.

eh, I am in good company at least. LOL

[DarkReign]

My computer closed the test on question 7. Maybe it was telling me something. Most of the questions seemed historical as opposed to strictly scientific.

Same. Crashed 15 questions in, not restarting.

EDITED: ....and its back. CSM ads suck the life out of my browser.

Anyway, not done yet, but its pretty obvious I forgot everything about basic math.

LOL....here comes a total guess:


The mathematical constant e is defined as the base of the natural system of logarithms, having a numerical value of approximately what?

Uuuuhhh....3.142 is Pi, so that isnt it.....hmmm.....guess: 2.718

Correct! Lucky.

OMG...I fucking dropped out of Trigonometry 3 weeks in, I have no fucking idea about what Greek letters mean in classical math. Fuck!

[DarkReign]

Enough of the play by play.

68%

Average Reader Score: 68%

Thats great, I am as dumb as the other people in traffic. Wonderful.

[travis2]

96 percent. Missed the DNA question and the Pluto question. (More like I'm not an expert in Greek mythology)

[The Reckoning]

pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet a few years ago

[travis2]

Yeah, I knew that much. I didn't know the reason the question was asking about.