Political Quiz (weapons, border, terror, million)

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by liebknecht

Here's Your Score: You correctly answered 11 out of the 12 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 98% of the general public.

That was mine, too. I missed Number 11.

Did you click on the link to see some of the demographic responses? I was curious as to the question(s) where college graduates scored lowest (tarp, prime minister, inflation).

[EuroTrashed]

Originally Posted by LauraC

Did you click on the link to see some of the demographic responses? I was curious as to the question(s) where college graduates scored lowest (tarp, prime minister, inflation).

I think Tarp and inflation are easily explainable, because the educated person knows that the government reporting about it is lied and bailout money is probably not really paid back and inflation is certainly much higher than reported.

[sindey]

10 correct....I missed the phone & the pm of Great Britain.

[ergohead]

Originally Posted by stillkit

11 of 12. I missed the TARP bailout question.

It seems that 10 or 11 out of 12 is about the norm for CD. That's impressive!

That's impressive optimism!

You're not considering all the non-respondents who scored low.

[DRob4JC]

10 of 12 - wrong on inflation, TARP

Agree on non-respondents - who wants to say they got 3 of 12 after seeing others post 10 or 11 correct?

[HistorianDude]

Here's Your Score: You correctly answered 12 out of the 12 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 99% of the general public.

Edited to add: The Google question was a wild guess.

[africanboy]

12 out 12. But that isn't really indicative of much. Good grades in a political science or economics course would be a more accurate test of one's knowledge.

[africanboy]

Originally Posted by EuroTrashed

I think Tarp and inflation are easily explainable, because the educated person knows that the government reporting about it is lied and bailout money is probably not really paid back and inflation is certainly much higher than reported.

No it is not. You can't really manipulate the cost of goods the gov't uses to calculate the consumer price index. You could calculate the inflation rate yourself and it wouldn't be far off from gov't estimates.

[Ecovlke]

11 of 12. After reading these posts I'm beginning to believe the stat that we scored better than 98% of the public to be incorrect.

[PeterRabbit]

10/12 - missed PM and India/Pakistan