TYT: Are You Smarter Than A U.S. Politician?

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 03:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKT8oV74OI4   Posted on YouTube: November 25, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: November 27, 2008 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 1605

 
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NOTE: I just found a link to the quiz here: http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2008/11/24/185857/96/Diary/Do-the-Civics-Quiz

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[sasquatch]

1. Can I have a link to the test?

[ihavenobias]

2. Here

http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2008/11/24/185857/96/Diary/Do-the-Civics-Quiz

[Clovis Sangrail]

3. quiz

http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/

I got 30 of 33 as well.
Though I didn't go back and change them.. I just flat out got 3 wrong.
:evilgrin:

[cooolandrew]

4. I've been saying for a while Cenk's a smart guy. I would of expected higher on the test with a >

Democratic majority. Least the new Prez will encourage the value of education. As Randi Rhodes said intelligence is making a comeback, just in the nick of time.

[ihavenobias]

18. I hope the intelligence spreads, but I'm not optimistic.

:(

[knitter4democracy]

5. I missed one. Dangit!

So, only a 96% for me. *sigh*

[MindMatter]

7. I missed 6. It is a good test

One of those 6 misses was bogus. Some of the questions were really trivial, but 49% is really not too far off what I'd expect. Some of the questions took a lot more attention span and reasoning ability than I see out there.

About the politicians getting 44%, well, it is a long-held tradition in America. Really, when was the last time (before Obama) that America voted for a President primarily because they valued his intelligence? I really see this as a very hopeful thing.

Arguably people voted for Carter on this bases, but that was mostly a backlash against Nixon. I think you have to go back to Kennedy or maybe FDR. I'm not saying all of the Presidents were stupid. Most of them were very intelligent in their own way. But I'm just saying that we have never celebrated intelligence. This is just one of the many changes Obama is bringing on.

[knitter4democracy]

14. I think it also was a test of how much you remember from school.

I remember details for some reason, and I was lucky enough to have a great government teacher in high school. Economics, too. I don't think everyone remembers stuff from high school like that or had teachers as amazing as mine.

[MindMatter]

17. I don't think any of the questions are unfair

although one or two are more ambiguous than then need to be. I do think it is a bit heavy on minor details and could have done more to address the really important concepts.

As it stands, I'd expect anybody seeking office higher than dogcatcher to at least get 65% right. It would be interesting to know the profile of the elected officials who averaged 44%

[OhioChick]

6. K&R

:kick:

[DutchLiberal]

8. You answered 25 out of 33 correctly — 75.76 %

Not bad for a Dutchman, without using the Google, eh? ;)

[Azlady]

9. Kick & Recd - geez me too 25 out of 33... the business ones really got me!

Also misread the the Wall of Seperation question... too much turkey!

[cynthia]

10. 84.5% missed 5 of them

I guess I am smarter than many US politicians!

[sasquatch]

13. Me too and I've been drinking

[hangman86]

11. 28 out of 33 = 84.85%

I can live with that. To have gotten a 44% on this test many of the officials must have bombed the economics portion of the test which really scares me. I only got one wrong in that segment of questions and I generally consider economics to be one of my weaker subjects.

[pedo]

12. this test is very biased and it is made by right wing christian group

that is pro free market, anti income tax, pro prayer in public schools and pro teaching creationism in public schools, to name a few things.

[knitter4democracy]

15. It's what I was taught in school.

The economics questions were straight out of my high school econ textbook, I think (sounded identical to me, anyways). As for creationism, I didn't see any of that on my test, and the prayer in public schools one was a red herring. I think they were trying to trip up the right-wingers with some of the questions and options.

[Unca Jim]

16. Good Quiz. Relatively tricky...

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

I missed an answer because I misread it as well.

Still, marginally A-Level! :)