Good Heavens Miss Sakamoto!
The Pew Research center and Smithsonian magazine have a 13-question Science & Technology quiz.
Going by their own statistical brackets, I am a white male between 30 and 49 with a high school education. I answered all 13 correctly, doing better than 93% of the public and the same as 7%.
How’d you do?
Famous moon rock star Buzz Aldrin records in Doubly.
Posted on September 20, 2013, in ♫ ♪ ♫, Fun Stuff, Life, Science! and tagged fun stuff, life, music, science. Bookmark the permalink. 16 Comments.
nightskyradio 
Missed one – and knew it as soon as I hit next question – Nitrogen/Atmosphere. DUH!
Hah! I’m smarter than you! ;P
Gloating is so unprofessional!
🙂
You just wish you were S-M-R-T also.
I got the nitrogen question right but I wasn’t sure. In fact when it said I got 12 right I thought that must have been the one I missed. Actually, though I missed the red blood cells one because I said I didn’t answer it, except that I did and if it had read the answer I gave I would have been scored 13.
So I looked at the percentage of people the missed each question, and only 20% got the nitrogen question right. For all the rest it was at least 48% IIRC. So that was the hardest question by a wide margin.
Correction 47% not 48.
I also missed Nitrogen. 12\13
Or
“You scored better than 85% of the public, below 7% and the same as 8%.”
That’s more than a little shocking that 85% can’t answer that stuff.
Yeah, it’s really not that difficult a quiz.
I know at least one other person who missed nitrogen. Am I the only one who knew that? 🙂
Who needs nitrogen anyway! Stupid element!
You’re not the only one who knew that–I also got all of them right.
Reminds me of an unnoticed joke in “Mars Attacks”. The Martian that seduced Martin Short had to chew nitrogen-laced gum because there isn’t sufficient nitrogen in our atmosphere for it to breathe. When I saw the movie in the theater I burst out laughing and everybody else looked at me like I was a freak.
They were right, of course, but at least I got the joke.
Not enough nitrogen? Hah!
13
Science was easier to understand than girls….
Science was easier to understand than people.
Can we just have a do-over?
Sorry, the house limit is three do-overs. – Futurama
but…but…but…