13/13 but I have a science background...

 

13/13 for me... I thought it was too easy. I have a technical and business background... but always have had a keen interest in science.

Do people really think this is hard?

 

All this stuff except for two questions were covered in my 7th grade science class back in the 80s. If you have some dyslexia, I can see how the wording of some more would potentially mess you up.

 

The chart at the end is scary.

13/13 as well. I am a mechanical engineer though.

Do people really think this is hard?

 

All this stuff except for two questions were covered in my 7th grade science class back in the 80s. If you have some dyslexia, I can see how the wording of some more would potentially mess you up.

 

The chart at the end is scary.

 

When this can happen http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/02/florida-water-prank/2046639/ we shouldn't be surprised by the overall poor results on such a quiz lol

i thought i did good with 11 until i read all of your comments.

 

im not surprised that some of the numbers are as low as they are.

 

Im also not surprised that the demographic of this forum would be on the higher end of the spectrum.

13/13 . Funny how drawings my teacher made in bio on the chalkboard 12 years ago vividly came back to my mind. Whatever he did, he did well, because it came back

13/13 but I'm studying for the MCAT

13/13 - The chart at the end is disturbing.

You answered 12 of 13 questions correctly

happy to be in the company of well read individuals

 

I was going through it too fast, should've thought a lil longer on this one. obvious answer ...

 

Which gas makes up most of the Earth's atmosphere?

 

You answered "Carbon dioxide"

 

The correct answer is "Nitrogen"

oopsie.....you're almost programmed.

13/13

 

Not bad for a history teacher.

 

 

13/13. Mechanical engineer here. The one thing I did find interesting was it seemed men outperformed women in all but the biology/medicine categories where they had a decent margin better performance. A lot of the questions seemed to be grammar school level science as well.

Pffft----ask some hard questions!

 

13/13

13/13, but I'm a physicist.

 

I think this thread is slanted towards high scores because people who score poorly probably wouldn't want to post about it. The chart at the end is scary.

 

What I find most interesting is that 18-29 beat 65+ on 11 questions, matched on 1 question, but lost by a fair margin (15%) on the issue of fracking. It makes a lot of sense, though: most of my generation has no clue about it, while the other three demographics are homeowners I used to see on the news speaking out against fracking.

Wow, I can't believe the number of brainiacs in the forums.

Dang I was unlucky I got 13 right. Oh wait that was all the questions. they were way to easy.

13/13.

 

But the quiz is bogus, any "science" quiz that brings up global warming and CO2 in the same question is not a science quiz at all.

Turns out I'm almost as smart as a fifth grader!

13/13 Those were all very easy. I admit though that the fracking question would have gotten me if they had thrown in oil as one of the answers. I really want to know how less then 50% of people do not know the basics about lasers or atoms?

13 for 13, though I disagree with#4.

You scored better than 93% of the public and the same as 7%.

 

1%

0

1%

1

3%

2

4%

3

6%

4

8%

5

8%

6

10%

7

11%

8

11%

9

12%

10

10%

11

8%

12

7%

13

TOTAL NUMBER OF QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY

You answered

13 of 13

questions correctly.