The opening page sez, FWIW: "The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. Can you do better? "
In fact, yes, I can - nailed it, even if some of the answers are a bit debatable.
100% here. I guessed a lot towards the end, especially about the economic stuff, making me thing this is at least partially rigged, but the early questions were really easy. Also, what do Socrates’, Plato’s, Aquinas’, and Aristotle’s ideas about absolute morality have to do with American civics?
Duh! It means that all them homos and Cathlicks and commies are wrong, always have been wrong, and every right-thinking Merkin knows that. Rights don’t matter none when theys “that way.”
I missed:
“What impact did the Anti-Federalists have on the United States Constitution?” and “What was the source of the following phrase: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”?” I have the excuse that I’m Canadian.
That was a little easy, to the point that I wonder if the average test taker really does get 49% or if this isn’t a way to encourage/flatter people.
I agreed with the theory behind the economics questions but was puzzled as to why that was part of a civics test.
84%. I’m not American and have never studied American history, but obviously you pick a lot of stuff up elsewhere - I bet I’ll be one of the lower scores.
I’m ok with that - the two I missed were on the last page and I was getting bored, so didn’t read the questions well. Might have missed them even if I had read them well.
32 out of 33. I missed the one about the Lincoln/Douglas debates.
One question asks “Under Our Constitution, some powers belong exclusively to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government?” Then two of the answers:
“Make treaties” and “Maintain prisons”
are powers of the federal government. Only one is an exclusive power, but the question didn’t directly ask that.