Now try the CS monitor SCIENCE TEST

[Ichingcarpenter]

Its a lot tougher and longer.
46 was my score







http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1209/Are-you-scientifically-literate-Take-our-quiz/Composing-about-78-percent-of-the-air-at-sea-level-what-is-the-most-common-gas-in-the-Earth-s-atmosphere

[arcane1]

1. Definitely tougher! I got 70%

I'm extra miffed because there were a couple of questions where I knew the right answer, but breezed through too fast to fully read them

[longship]

2. I goofed on two.

I changed my answer about the tool-making era from correct to wrong.

I miscalculated the acceleration. Too much in a hurry and didn't double check. My bad, I have a BS in physics!!!

I agree. A tougher test than the Pew test posted earlier.

[NYC_SKP]

3. I got a 70, which is NOT that good.

If 68 is the average reader's score.

In my line of work my score should have been higher.

Argh.

[enlightenment]

4. I got 80%

but many were guesses that I got lucky with because I studied Greek. Did horribly on the maths, not surprisingly.
That was much harder!

[MisterP]

5. 45/50

botched the measurement one by one decimal point, and the Greek letters
had to get through it like Tracy Jordan on Cash Cab: ethanol looks like a horsie and I met one of Gell-Mann's identically-named adopted sons
http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2010/09/30/30-rock-tracy-morgan-on-cash-cab.html

[SeattleVet]

6. You answered 47 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 94%.

Not bad for an old fart!

[Agschmid]

9. Same score!

Got two just dead wrong... Not great at calculating speeds on the fly!

[Boom Sound 416]

7. 42%

[ananda]

8. 54%

However, sometimes it was a choice between two and the other one was right.

[NuclearDem]

10. 44/50.

Holy hell that was tougher.

[pintobean]

11. Ghostery blocked 21 trackers at that link.

Screw that.

[Trailrider1951]

12. 84%

I should have done better. I have a BS in Geology with a minor in Chemistry. I got careless on a couple of them.

[X_Digger]

13. I missed two.. one on the force calculation, one on Kepler v Hubble

I guessed on a few by process of elimination, though.

[hobbit709]

14. 49 but I knew the answer, just got in a hurry and clicked on the wrong one.

[DiverDave]

15. 31-50

Thank you, shows how much I know lol

[DevonRex]

16. Jesus christ. I got 44/50 and thought most of those were

iffy answers. Hell, calculating acceleration? Haven't done that since high school physics. And good lord, if they had asked anything difficult from the periodic table I would have been lost. Luckily, you can't forget oxygen, right, and the ones around it either. Same with anything to do with hydrogen.

I just thank goodness that my physics teacher was really into textbook stuff and drilled that into us. One of my sisters got stuck with a guy that did nothing but work on a car engine the whole time.

OK who got the fucking PEA POD right? I thought it was fruit flies.

[Egalitarian Thug]

22. I did, but you scored higher overall. Geology and physics that I haven't used since college

tripped me up most often. More than a couple of the answers I got right came through process of elimination and a lucky guess.

[DevonRex]

23. You

got the pea pod???? My hat is off to you. And yeah, I had to go through elimination for some, too. I got lucky because so many questions relied on language skills. And because i had the same teacher in high school for physics and chemistry. He was really hard but made you want to do well. Those were my favorite classes. He even made me love math again.

I had a hell of a time with the planet stuff. Wound up with lucky guesses and then got lucky on 2 questions that had been in the news recently about Hubble and water on Titan. You're a good egg ET even though we do fight sometimes.

[Egalitarian Thug]

29. Mendel got me interested in science and is at least partially to blame for

my misguided belief that I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up.

OK, it was actually Mr. Singleton teaching us about Mendel, but it stuck.

Thanks for the kind reply.

[DevonRex]

17. Admit it, Iching. You hate us. You know we would rather

eat nails than admit defeat so we worked on that thing longer than we ever did for anything else. Except maybe finding a painting on Friday.

[libodem]

18. 100%

And I had to take my best guess on a lot of them. I'm a great guesser. I love science

Didn't get this right trying to copy the screen.

I tried to save it. But that doesn't look like that will be it.

[libodem]

21. not it at all

Where did that come from? I only missed two on the religion test, too. One I misread and one I flat didn't know.

[Egalitarian Thug]

19. 84% :-( I can't believe how many things I've forgotten... n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. I just went, my lord how much I have forgotten!!!!

[Savannahmann]

24. 84% Which isn't bad.

[BlueJazz]

25. 90% The Astronomy and Physics stuff was a breeze..the rest..not so much!

[synapticwave]

26. 41

Several of those I would classify as history or trivia more than I would classify as science. Still, I'm disappointed in myself for forgetting some of them.

[Brother Buzz]

27. 72%

But then again Scientific American is a tough slog for me.

[Cal Carpenter]

28. Wow, that was tough

I am amazed to say I got 72%. I got really lucky on several 'educated guesses'.

[Doc_Technical]

30. 52%

I am indeed old and stupid.