Science Knowledge Quiz

[MidasKnight]

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/

Have at it ! :sneaky:

Post your results and your education level.

Me: 10 out of 12 / High School only no college.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

12 out of 12 but those seemed like very basic questions really.

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

12 out of 12.

But I thought I was going to get 11/12 or less. Because one of the early Astro questions, had me NOT 100% certain of the correct answer.

Better than 94%.

 

[John Connor]

10/12

GED then high school diploma. I went to Job Corp and mainly took up welding. I need to get may ass in college, but I need to apply for grants. Hell if I'm shelling out thousands of dollars!

 

[Aharami]

that's some basic stuff there. 12/12

 

[ViperXX]

12/12

 

[nakedfrog]

12/12
I find the last question offensive, given that it's a science knowledge quiz.

 

[Ken g6]

12/12. I had issues with several questions. Putting the issues in spoiler tags because they also give the answers.

4:

Spoiler

Gravitational pull creates tides, but without the rotation of the Earth on its axis, the tides wouldn’t move, so there would be no local “tides” moving up and down. (Except that the sun and the moon don’t move together, so at least one would create slow-moving tides, depending on whether you really mean “not rotating”, or “tidally locked”.)

5: Einstein would complain that a light-year also measures

Spoiler

time

. (Considering his

Spoiler

light clock

thought experiments and all.)

8: Sounds waves don’t have a “

Spoiler

height

”, except in bad textbook representations. They’re compression waves, not transverse waves.

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

Redacted.

 

[mmntech]

12/12

Do 34% of people really not know that water boils at a lower temperature at higher altitude. That's 6th grade science. It's also why you can never get a decent cup of tea on an airplane.

 

[DigDog]

11/12

got the magnifying glass one wrong, because bad graph.

also cheated on n.11 (polio vaccine) because it's a history question. and n.12 is not a science question either, it's sociology.

 

[Drako]

I am the 6%. :|

 

[Newell Steamer]

I got potato/12 - what do I win?

 

[StrangerGuy]

It's one thing to know water boils at lower pressure and another to understand why.

 

[SOFTengCOMPelec]

Redacted.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

12 of 12. Easy questions.

 

[gorcorps]

11/12

got the magnifying glass one wrong, because bad graph.

also cheated on n.11 (polio vaccine) because it's a history question. and n.12 is not a science question either, it's sociology.

You should be able to get the polio vaccine one by process of elimination alone. If somebody asked me who invented the polio vaccine, I wouldn't know... but given multiple choices where 3 out of the 4 are obviously wrong it should be easy.

Or are you saying you really didn't know what Marie Curie, Einstein, and Isaac Newton were involved with?

 

[rga]

12/12

One credit short of graduating college, so I answered some college.

Those really were pretty basic questions. Really wasn't sure who created the vaccine for polio, but I knew it wasn't Einstein or Curie, and Newton was too old, so that was just a process of elimination.

 

[dullard]

12/12, post graduate. I only was correct on the polio vaccine since it clearly wasn't the other 3. If it was fill in the blank I would have gotten 11/12.

But, I think the questions suck. For example, I'd like to see the usefullness of a cell phone call without using sound waves. And if I wanted to be really picky, I'd like to see someone make nuclear weapons with only the correct answer (or do anything for that matter without using multiple of those options).

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I was going to say that this was a quiz more appropriate for elementary school kids, but then I went and missed the last question. In my defense I didn't fully read it; I glossed over the "can influence human behavior" part and assumed they wouldn't be asking religious questions in a science knowledge quiz.

 

[JTsyo]

Which of these terms is defined as the study of how the positions of stars and planets can influence human behavior?

Does

Spoiler

Astrology

ever do studies? Or does someone just make things up?

 

[Schmide]

Frilling mantel

 

[IronWing]

If science is so great, why aren't there any reality TV shows about science?

 

[Paratus]

I scored a 503 service unavailable.

I think i was 12/12

 

[dave_the_nerd]

If science is so great, why aren't there any reality TV shows about science?

They're called Documentaries.

11/12 - got the magnifying glass one wrong.