# "Can We Guess Your Highest Education Level?" Test **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976 "2016-04-24T02:12:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mage-girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@mage-girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mage-girl)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/21 "2016-04-24T07:06:16Z")
I got an 86%. :eek: No, I don’t have a doctorate in real life, and don’t plan on getting my masters’ either at the moment. Being a social science major, I mainly whiffed on the non-biology “hard” science questions. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/22 "2016-04-24T07:20:26Z")
91%. I don’t even have a BA, let alone a PhD. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/23 "2016-04-24T07:24:42Z")
100%. I wasn’t sure about the year the Spanish Civil War ended, and another one a little later. But I guessed right. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/24 "2016-04-24T07:50:11Z")
I got 97%, so two wrong, which places me at a Fudd… er, PhD. (I didn’t know how many wives Henry VIII had, and I mis-clicked on the question about George Eliot’s real name.) (An honorary Masters to whoever gets the reference. ;)) In reality, I have a BS, which fits with this test quite nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/25 "2016-04-24T08:04:09Z")
I got to question 35, at 100%, then it just would not tick over to Q36, kept giving mye Q35 over and over. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/26 "2016-04-24T08:28:08Z")
First, aren’t there 73 questions instead of 75 as the OP claims? I’m not going to go through the test again, but I thought that’s what I counted. It would take too long to do it all again. Second, notice that there are dozens of variations on this test online. Google on the words “Can”, “We”, “Guess”, “Your”, “Education”, and “Level”. That is, put those words into a single Google search without putting quotation marks around the whole phrase. I only clicked on a couple of them, but they all appear to be questions of about the same level, although they have somewhat different questions. Why is this so popular? Is it clickbait to get people to click on their websites? ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/27 "2016-04-24T10:36:31Z")
91%. (I got two wrong because I answered without thinking and one or two I generally did not know). I don’t have a PHD but I do have two Masters…does that count? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/28 "2016-04-24T11:13:39Z")
How interesting that my BS in Engineering is actually a PhD!! There were a few I didn’t know, and a few I answered too fast and got wrong, but none of the questions struck me as requiring advanced studies. Heck, a loyal Jeopardy fan would probably do extremely well… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/29 "2016-04-24T11:44:54Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > Ego stroke quiz. I am no where near a PhD. 83% Wow, PhD goes that low? Anyway, got 94%…one of the ones I got wrong, I knew the answer, but second guessed (Hindi vs Mandarin Chinese for most speakers). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/30 "2016-04-24T12:30:04Z")
Yeah, there were a couple I had to guess on, and some that I couldn’t have gotten on open response but which were easy in multiple choice format, but I got 100%, and would have gotten nearly that when I was in high school. And of the ones I might have missed in high school, I learned the answer not in college or grad school, but just in life. And the test was also incredibly lazy. Many of the later questions only had two answer choices. How hard would it have been to come up with a couple more random authors, say? ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/31 "2016-04-24T13:05:43Z")
94% (3 wrong, stupid guesses), which gives me a PhD. I actually have an MA and MLS, and very little of this seemed like grad-level questions in any subject. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/32 "2016-04-24T13:19:11Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I hope the writers of that test, not to mention the intelligent test-takers of the Dope, didn’t say the inventor of the printing press was Gutenberg. No, for a double burn, they went with Gutenb_u_rg. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/33 "2016-04-24T13:19:26Z")
High school dropout here. I got 96% with two wrong, so I guess the questions are weighted differently? ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/34 "2016-04-24T16:09:18Z")
99% (muffed the question on how many wives Henry VIII had); I have a bachelor’s degree but not a PhD. Also, _Walden: Back on the Chain Gang_ as the title of a book by Henry David Thoreau struck me as hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/35 "2016-04-24T16:50:38Z")
I not only have PhD, I’m also Emma Watson if the photo is to be believed. Both of those facts are equally correct, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/36 "2016-04-24T16:52:16Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > No, for a double burn, they went with Gutenb_u_rg. Everyone knows there’s two "t"s in Steve Guttenberg. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/37 "2016-04-24T17:00:04Z")
I recall the printing press question had enough leeway to make Gutenburg the correct answer. Something like “Known as the inventor of the first successful printing press”. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/38 "2016-04-24T17:07:39Z")
93%. Missed a few questions dealing with art I’m not familiar with. The rest were gimmes. I don’t think any of the science questions were above high school level, maybe even middle school. Yet they think I have a PhD :rolleyes:. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/39 "2016-04-24T17:11:20Z")
I gave up after three questions. My iPad locked up for minutes after each one. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976/40 "2016-04-24T17:13:24Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > … > They didn’t really have much to do with education level. Having a Ph.D. is about depth, not breadth, of knowledge… Would there be value in having a higher degree based on breadth of knowledge? That is, this would provide some sort of recognition for someone who has mastered a wide variety of topics at a higher level than undergraduate General Education requirements, but less than that of having a full subject-specific Master’s or Doctorate in each of them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-guess-your-highest-education-level-test/752976.md?page=3)