Civic Literacy Exam

#51
#51
MG1968 said:
30 of 33

this is one of those that I missed:



huh? with nearly 50% of all Americans having no federal income tax liability, there's no way "on average" government spending per person is equal to their tax liability.
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?? I'm pretty sure that's why they said on average...If spending equals revenue, then you divide both by total population, those two per capita numbers are the same. No?
 
#53
#53
nbakerld said:
I'll be the first to say it....if the average American got 49% and the average VN poster is scoring 94% does this mean we are the smartest fan base alive or does it mean that this message board is full of liars?
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It means that those of us who actually care... know something about the issues and history. Those who don't... are probably watching E!... or MSNBC
 
#56
#56
You answered 24 out of 33 correctly — 72.73 %

Crud, am I the only one who didn't google for the answers?


But, it looks like I'm doing better than the folks we elected. Here is the quote from the table that compares average citizens to elected officials:

Are You Smarter Than a Politician?
Of the 2,508 People surveyed, 164 say they have held an elected government office at least once in their life. Their average score on the civic literacy test is 44%, compared to 49% for those who have not held an elected office. Officeholders are less likely than other respondents to correctly answer 29 of the 33 test questions. This table shows the “knowledge gap” for each question: the difference between the percentage of common citizens who answered correctly and the percentage of officeholders who answered correctly.
 
#57
#57
YorkVol said:
Crud, am I the only one who didn't google for the answers?
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if I'd googled, I'd have scored a 31 of 33. I, too, missed the Lincoln/Douglas debate question and the other two I missed were more reading comprehension than anything you can find with a google search.
 
#58
#58
32/33. Couldn't remember where "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" came from.
 
#60
#60
lumberjack4 said:
32/33. Couldn't remember where "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" came from.
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I tricked myself on that one. I knew for a fact that it was in the Gettysburg address because I still have it memorized from middle school. However, the question mentioned "the original source." So, I incorrectly convinced myself that it must have appeared somewhere else first and that the Gettysburg Address answer was a planted trap. Wrong.
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#61
#61
volinbham said:
I had problems with Abe vs Douglas, and the anti-Federalists.
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The Anti Federalist answer was pretty lousy, as it was less detailed than the wrong answers, which made it seem like a filler answer.

Tying the wrong answers to Federalism was how I got it.
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#62
#62
I can't get past the first question. Does unalienable mean that an alien can't do it?
 
#63
#63
It means you cannot turn it into an alien.

Like a coffee cup is unalienable, because it cannot be made into an alien by modern technology.
 
#64
#64
29 out of 33 and I'm almost as old as both these numbers added together.
 
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