(I scored 79%)
Full Civic Literacy Exam (from our 2008 survey)
Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen?
The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%;
college educators scored 55%. Can you do better?
Questions were drawn from past ISI surveys, as well as other nationally recognized exams.
It only takes a few minutes.
I got 79%
You answered 26 out of 33 correctly — 78.79 %
27 out of 33 = 82%
I surprised myself
I got 79%
78.79 %
26 out of 33 correctly — 78.79 %
You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
Fun Test! Maybe I should go back to school.
You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %
25 out of 33. Smarter than the average bear.
Guess so.
> Are you more knowledgeable than the average citizen?
"You answered 33 out of 33 correctly — 100.00 %"
I was looking for trick questions, but didn't see any.
82% and I rushed through
Well, I wasn't going to take it because they already said my score was 55. But, curiosity got the best of me.
84.85
Of the incorrect, 2 I was going to fast (and the dog ate my homework), 2 I disagree with (although I admit they are generally accepted as true), and one I really didn't know.
It was an interesting mix for sure.
fitting, 66.6% (22/33) - never was a history buff
76.56
Although, I had the feeling that some of the questions were leading. A little poking around found this:
In a 1989 speech to the Heritage Foundation, the ISI President, T. Kenneth Cribb Jr., stated:
We must...provide resources and guidance to an elite which can take up anew the task of enculturation. Through its journals, lectures, seminars, books and fellowships, this is what ISI has done successfully for 36 years. The coming of age of such elites has provided the current leadership of the conservative revival. But we should add a major new component to our strategy: the conservative movement is now mature enough to sustain a counteroffensive on that last Leftist redoubt, the college campus...We are now strong enough to establish a contemporary presence for conservatism on campus, and contest the Left on its own turf. We plan to do this by greatly expanding the ISI field effort, its network of campus-based programming.[2]
Mmmm
78.8 %
Not bad, but missed a couple that I would not have if I had taken a little more time.
Scott
You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %
Rick
You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %
It isn't that hard to be smarter than the average citizen.
This time I got 32/33, 96.97% correct.
Missed question:
Question: Name one right or freedom guaranteed by the first amendment.
Your Answer: Right to bear arms
Correct Answer: Religion
Duane
> , 2 I disagree with (although I admit they are generally accepted as true), and one I really didn't know.
>
> It was an interesting mix for sure.
Yeah, only a political science student would think cutting taxes and raising spending would be a good idea.
69.7 for me, but I obviously missed one by clicking wrong. So I'm rounding up to an even 70.0 In all aspects of my life,especially surveying, I believe in the Socratic Method.
Paden I got above national average ! LOL , Which suggestss
on multiple choice Qs the "pass rate" should be in high 60s.
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