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Gomez · candid chimera

Are you scientifically literate?

Courtesy of CSM. I was quite surprised by how tough it was. I got 36 out of 50. Not a great score, but I've never been much of a scientist. I'm sure most people here will easily eclipse that.

Zag · Unintentionally offensive old coot

"You answered 45 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 90%."

Jedo the Jedi · Paragon in Training

The age of the earth question was tricky considering the source of the quiz...

37/50. Also, apparently you don't need to know much about science if you know Greek. Wink

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Neo · Daedalian Member

44/50. Those bio questions just killed me.

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ralphmerridew · Daedalian Member

45/50

referee · June 21st, 2004 Member

You answered 41 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 82%.
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Chuck · Daedalian Member

I got 41 right. I got some of them by eliminating the other three. I would have done worse if it hadn't been multiple choice.

The Ragin' South Asian · Head Poncho

43/50, including one random guess that was right (one of the which greek letter questions), and few educated guesses that were right

Scurra · Daedalian Member

42 for me. After an early shaky start things improved once it started asking questions that weren't actually about science (the epithet of Athena, for instance.) Revenge most foul!

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Zag · Unintentionally offensive old coot

I started off 15 for 15 (at least, I don't recall where my first mistake was). The epithet of Athena is one I got wrong. Extreme Delectation

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

I got almost all of the names incorrect. I guess I don't know science history very well. I also wasn't very good at counting all the way to 8. I think that had something to do with watching Venture Brothers while taking this quiz.
So I got just 39 correct. Hurray for being a person who memorizes very, very little.

Aaroner · Icarian Member

Btw, there was one a bit confusing question about planets. Is Pluto thought to be a planet now? I read the recent researches where it is out of the planet "pack".
My result is 42/50.

Courk · Daedalian Member

40/50 not too far behind the lot of you.

3iff · very unbifflike

40/50. Disappointing as I talked myself out of at least two right answers.

Lepton* · Guest

I got them all, but had to guess at "Nimbus" and didn't know Watt invented the unit of Horsepower -- interesting because the SI unit of power is named after him!

Courk · Daedalian Member

I talked myself out of quark as an answer to that one question, because it said "elementary" which made me think of the elements, and everything besides atom was a subatomic particle. It seemed a bit late to come up with the term atom, but I wrongly went with it.

3iff · very unbifflike

The quark one I knew straight away..."Three quarks for muster Mark" is the quote from the book...and that's all I know about that.

JDTAY · obseletes now

38/50

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Jack_Ian · Big Endian

I guess I'm bottom of the class with 36/50 Felicitous

In my defence, my second guess was always the correct answer for those I missed and it's been a long time since I was at school.

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MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

OK-- how about a different test entirely...

http://similarminds.com/int.html

I got 93% as my overall percentile.

Jack_Ian · Big Endian

It says I got 96% and love Indie Rock, even though i specifically chose "false" for the first question asking if I love indie Rock. Confused

wordcross · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:55 pm Post subject: 23

for the original quiz, I got 42/50 correct. Many questions followed the Jeopardy method of inquiry where you get multiple hints at the answer, even if you wouldn't have known the answer asked only one way.

There were a few that I answered incorrectly that I really should have gotten correct had I been paying any attention at all. Nanometers & centimeters, for example, I got wrong because I started out converting to the closest in the set of three (millimeters) and then forgot to do the extra power of 10.

Like RSA and others said, a lot of it was educated guesses that work because it's multiple choice. e.g. [I knew that there was such a thing as Planck's constant, so I chose him for that question based solely on that knowledge. had you asked me what his constant was, I would have been completely out of my depth.]

87% on the second one. I'm terrible at pattern recognition with multiple elements. i.e. all of those ones where each figure had multiple circles/triangles/squares/exes were complete stabs in the dark.
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Zag · Unintentionally offensive old coot

96%, and it also said in the evaluation that I love indie rock (after I said I don't in the first question). I'm not sure why that part was in there -- maybe it was all a very clever ruse to get us to click the link.

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

I was skeptical about the quiz because of the indie rock opening question. But the tests on the site pleasant versions of standard tests.

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The Ragin' South Asian · Head Poncho

I started the second one but couldn't figure anything out and gave up. 0%

The Ragin' South Asian · Head Poncho

I took it but guessed, 87%. And I love indie rock [edit]according to the test[/edit].

The Ragin' South Asian · Head Poncho

Got kind of suspicious about all the 87%s and took it again but answered only A and got 1%, so I guess it's just a coincidence.

MNOWAX · 0.999... of a Troll

i took the science test, and i think i did well for 30/50.

Keep in mind I have no college degree, and had ZERO chemistry and physics in high school, and only have a background in math that was of my own choosing ( i didn't take too many classes, but i loved the subject enough to pursue it on my own).
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Courk · Daedalian Member

I love indie rock! Apparently.

96%

Death Mage · Raving Lunatic

I got bored after 10 questions.
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Jedo the Jedi · Paragon in Training

87%. Meh.
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wordcross · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 12:41 am Post subject: 34

JDTAY · obseletes now

96%

I suspect it may give out high scores on purpose to trick people into loving indie rock. As it stands, I love Katy Perry.
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Quailman · His Postmajesty

42/50. I don't think I guessed right on any, even when I was sure it was one of two answers. Though I was 'sure' it was one of two for the catalytic converter, but it wasn't.

jesternl · Yankee Doodle Dutchie

37/50, but doing it while distracted probably cost me a few right answers.. I'll take the other one now.
79%, got bored & guessed the last 4 Revenge most foul!