Science and Technology Knowledge Quiz.

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NewDawn
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07 Jun 2013, 12:37 pm

13,/13, although to be totally honest, it should have been 12/13. I didn;t have a fracking clue what fracking was and made an educated guess.
The other questions were just general knowledge.

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07 Jun 2013, 3:19 pm

KingofAces wrote:

12 out of 13. The one I missed, I had the atmospheric gas numbers switched. I was thinking 21% nitrogen and 78% Oxygen when its reversed. So really I could have gotten a 13/13 if it wasn't for that. Pretty easy quiz. Doesn't mean anything.

I did exactly the same thing!
12/13

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07 Jun 2013, 7:30 pm

13/13, and that was very easy.

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10 Jun 2013, 12:53 pm

13/13. More than 93% of the adults who took this test?

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13 Jun 2013, 4:11 pm

13/13. I weep for the present.

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28 Jun 2013, 3:15 am

12 out of 13

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29 Jun 2013, 3:42 am

Teasaidh wrote:

12 out of 13

Which one did you miss?

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29 Jun 2013, 7:43 am

bluerobot wrote:

13/13. I weep for the present.

Me too. I cannot believe 93% could not answer all questions correctly. What a degenerate culture we have created.

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29 Jun 2013, 8:28 am

GoonSquad wrote:

bluerobot wrote:

13/13. I weep for the present.

Me too. I cannot believe 93% could not answer all questions correctly. What a degenerate culture we have created.

You guys are such snobs.

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29 Jun 2013, 4:46 pm

I got 12 out of 13. I forgot that Nitrogen was the most plentiful element in the atmosphere. I picked Hydrogen for some reason. It was a pretty easy test given that I haven't touched a scientific course since high school and still managed to score 12. I'm not sure what that says for the 50, 60 or whatever per cent of the population that scored in single digits.

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30 Jun 2013, 12:19 am

13/13
not really challenging

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06 Jul 2013, 9:35 am

13/13

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09 Jul 2013, 9:21 am

13/13 It was easier than I was expecting it to be. Should most people know these things? I do think some of them are very topical and necessary information for what is going on in the world. I don't think it much matters if most people don't know the ratio of oxygen to nitrogen in the air. But it matters quite a lot if most people don't know what fracking is, or what gas is associated with global warming or why antibiotic resistance is a danger. Public policy hinges on knowledge of those things and it's easy for politicians to lie believably to people who don't understand the ramifications of the policies the politicians they support are voting on.

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