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LinkPlease note that there are 50 questions, and the way it's set up it will actually take you 150 clicks to finish the test. Some of the questions seemed absurdly easy, but there are (at least for me) a few killer questions in there.
For the record, I got a 90%. I suspect I would have scored a bit higher in my school days, but it has been almost 30 years...
Lucky Luciano
(11,236 posts)qazplm
(3,626 posts)but some of the questions didn't really test scientific literacy but simply esoteric knowledge/fun facts.
NRaleighLiberal
(59,922 posts)Was never great on units, physical properties, etc. (then again, I did double major in chem and bio!)
Confusious
(8,317 posts)Geology and Biology. Haven't take either one since high school... 24 years ago.
Lots of shit I usually just look up if I need to know. Even my hard ass chem teacher didn't make us memorize the entire periodic table.
As Einstein said... "If I need it, I remember it, if I don't, I just remember where to look it up."
Or something like that...
(excuses, excuses...)
tridim
(45,358 posts)LOL at the answers for Earth's age.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)Bah...
laconicsax
(14,860 posts)Got my watts and joules mixed up.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Not to mention getting snookered by the "Australopithecus" question.
TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)TheMadMonk
(6,187 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,500 posts)If I had any pride, I would be embarassed.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)It reminded me of the science class I co taught, which had ninth and tenth graders in it. The knowledge is at that level. I haven't taught science in years so I scored a 86 which goes to show ....... you forget shit.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)at the though of me presuming to be literate in physical science!
Dead_Parrot
(14,478 posts)Kicking myself at some of the stuff I fluffed.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)B.S. Physics: it's not just for getting chicks!
But I taught chem and astronomy, and won a state prize in biology long ago. My science knowledge is not deep anymore, but it's still broad.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)My high school biology teacher would kick my ass for botching up meiosis & mitosis and I also flubbed the cloud one (nimbus?). But I must express my disagreement with this manner of teaching of science or measuring scientific literacy as the memorization of a bunch of facts.
Feynman on the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something:
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)damn
I should have known the Max Plank one but the letter "h" made me go with Heisenberg
stupid stupid stupid
oh well, it was still fun, thanks for posting
YankeyMCC
(8,401 posts)A little disappointing...I did make a couple mistakes due to rushing I don't think it would've broke 95% though
freethought
(2,457 posts)Some of the more involved physics questions got me.
Johnny Rico
(1,438 posts)freethought
(2,457 posts)Some of the things I don't even recall:
Correct answer was "Joule" when I answered "Pascal"
The acceleration equation.
Pluto's moon is actually Eris.
I answered "Force" when the correct answer was "Momentum".
Palladium in catalytic converters? Wow, that was a surprise on my part.
A scalene triangle has no equal sides.
The factor 'h' is named after Max Planck and not Werner Heisenberg.
As you can see the physics questions got me.
All in all however, I am pretty happy with that score
Johnny Rico
(1,438 posts)Eris is the largest dwarf planet in the Solar System. Pluto's moons are Charon, Nix, Hydra, and S/2011 P 1.
I only got Palladium in catalytic converters because of the clue that the answer was related to the Greek goddess Athena, who I knew was sometimes known as Pallas Athena.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Although that includes one mouse selection error.