147 Replies to “11 Out Of 12 Correct”

  1. Missed Baucus and troop numbers.Got lucky on all the rest.
    Need advilgelcaps and water, badly, which proves a hungover Canadian is as smart as a sober Canadian and just as delusional.

  2. One brief moment of pride at getting twelve out of twelve, then came the realization I was doing this quiz on Christmas morning. Okay, I will “get a life” later today.

  3. Guess us redneck right-wing types pay more attention to what’s going on in the world than the compassionate, progressive, head-in-the-sand lefties.
    Watching FOX news instead of CBC/CTV also helps.

  4. I felt kind of dumb not knowing some of the answers and kind of guessed/used process of elimination on a couple names. 12 of 12. I am kind of shocked that people would get less than 8 of 12. I guess that explains recent elections.

  10. 12/12 Baucus a guess. I tried inserting the Canadian equivalents and was lost, I’m not sure what that tells me?

  13. 10/12
    Baucus, I know was one mistake. The goofy javascript on the site didn’t jibe well with my browser, so I wasn’t able to see which other mistake I made.

  14. 9/12. Yeah well I got a few wrong but hey one I miss read and apart from that I got the federal reserve and finance people stuff wrong, but as UK citizen its got to be pretty good, its not from listening to TV (not had one for years) or listening to radio. Wonder how I’d do on the same for say Europe or the far east somewhere.
    Anyway
    Happy Christmas and a healthy happy New Year to all SDA readers.

  15. Looks like the average here is 11 out of 12. If you want an educated American public, make SDA a part of their day.

  16. Looks like all the smart asses are doing the reporting. 🙂 Only got 9 myself.
    Merry Christmas everyone!

  20. 10 out of 12, the fed reserve got me and the unemployment also. Thought they wanted the real numbers of unemployed.
    Merry Christmas to all from redneck Alberta.
    Cheers,
    goodomens

  21. 11/12 Baucus.
    Two things bother me. First, I know way too much about US politics. Second, I’m on my computer on Christmas morning.
    Oh well, I had Christmas yesterday. You have to juggle, when kids aren’t kids anymore.

  23. I would love to see a similar poll about Canadian politics with 12 questions and see how well Canadians fare on a poll about their own country. BTW 10/12. Missed health care costs and Afstan troop numbers.

  24. I didn’t really think that much about these results as I did the test just before going to bed. Today on sober, but slightly hungover reflection, these results are scary.
    The mean score (at the time that I took the test at about 03:00 PST) was 5.24. The distribution is quite skewed and, as the raw data is unavailable, SD is both non-computable and likely meaningless. 55% of the population have a score that is less than 5. The primary peak in the score distribution is centered on scores of 3 to 4 with a smaller secondary peak at 11 ?SDA scores.
    Aside from reading SDA and WUWT daily I have no exposure to regular news whatever. In particular, I completely ignore TV and radio “news”. My only exposure to conventional news sources is if I follow links from an SDA/WUWT posting. Obviously that is enough information to keep up with current events.
    As human wetware storage capacity hasn’t likely decreased, WTF are the majority of people filling their brains with? I’d be willing to bet that the majority of the people who scored low get most of their news from the MSM, especially TV sources. I had the misfortune to be exposed to some TV news at a friends place recently and it seemed that the primary hot topic was Tiger Woods. The only piece of information I have stored on Tiger Woods is that he is a golfer and I have absolutely no interest in his personal life. I also have concluded that young black athletes given large amounts of money tend to squander it, often in stupid ways. Those two bits of information sum up the whole non-story for me and why it rates more than a 10 second mention on the news is mystifying.
    If the results on a simple test of what should be common knowledge are representative of the US population, then the election of BO makes much more sense. The only hope I see for the US to remain a democracy is some form of testing of voters before they are allowed to vote. This might be a test of this nature on current affairs, or better yet an IQ test. It appears that the MSM is actively trying to ensure that people are concerned with trivialities to prevent consideration of the real national issues.

  25. loki, unfortunately you are right about “It appears that the MSM is actively trying to ensure that people are concerned with trivialities to prevent consideration of the real national issues”.
    It takes a catastrophes on the scale of the 1939 invasion of Poland, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbour and 9/11, in order for people to focus on real issues.

  26. the comments on SDA
    the best
    Merry Christmas all you articulate and thoughtful
    dead gophers!

  27. 12 outta 12…but I did get a lucky guess on Bernanke I gotta admit.
    Pretty scary that so many scored so low. Had a liberal relative just take the test too…6 outta 12. Do we really need to analyze these results much more to know that it it the uninformed idiots that are electing these commies??
    Merry Xmas

  30. 12 of 12 . I’m American so that’s understandable . Ya’ll did very well , much better than I would have done on a similar Canadian test . I did pass the Canadian citizen test without any studying , though .
    I wish you guys could trade places with a corresponding number of my fellow Americans . Not that most of you would want to under our current leadership .
    Merry Christmas SDA !
    I’m a regular visitor , just not a commenter .

  31. 11/12. Like many, I missed Baucus. Now, if the question had been about the House chairman, I know it’s the retarded gasbag Barney Frank. But the Senate Finance committee doesn’t get too much air time.

  34. 11 out of 12… off on the troop count. And I also lost count on the number of calories taken in today.

  36. 9/12…the only news I get is SDA and a few blogs I read, nothing at home, if I watch it it’s British left wing garbage, so I don’t watch it.
    The scary part is that only 23% of adults know that cap and trade has to do with “energy and environment”. (Well, it doesn’t really, but “Lining the pockets of Mubage” wasn’t one of the answers.)

  37. I did pass the Canadian citizen test without any studying, though.

    If you’d like some similar fun, Tim Blair’s new MSM blog at the Aussie Daily Telegraph has an Australian citizenship test on it too although you’ll have to search the archives for it.

  40. 12 of 12
    What is sobering is that put me in the top 2% and at least 8 of the questions were so straightforwardly simple that the whole quiz took about a minute to complete. What is up with Americans? with females as a gender only averaging 4.9 correct and males barely nosing out that pathetic score? And I say that as a Canadian non-graduate who is fond of Americans but has not actually visited there since 1986. Gawd help us. No wonder they can be so swayed by vacuous emotional rhetoric when the merest mental retention of even simple facts seems the equivalent of scaling Mt. Everest sans oxygen.
    Merry Christmas to all and A Happy, prosperous, fruitful, mentally alert New Year!

  41. Dwayne at December 25, 2009 11:38 PM:
    “11/12… seems the Fed chairman needs to get a bit of a higher profile here in Canada!”
    Higher than who, Max Baucus? Wasn’t Ben Time’s Man of the Year?
    Oh wait, you’re pulling our legs …
    BTW 12/12 and Max of the Senate Finance Committee was a complete close-the-eyes-and-throw-the-dart-response.
    I hope everyone had a good Christmas. I don’t post much but I love reading everyone’s comments.

  44. only 9/12, but I’ve been on chemotherapy for 48 hours, plus I went through a meltdown with my imbecilic in laws who ignored a simple request to leave their terminally stupid dog at home while my immune system was so badly compromised. I knew they were liberals, but I thought even liberals had more sense than that.

  45. 75% for me. My downfall was Baucus and all of the stats. ‘Never was very interested in all that number stuff …

  46. 12 fer 12. (I guessed at the Dow.)
    I work at home listening to Rush/Beck/Hannity all day. Pity me.

  47. awkward davies @Dec 25th 7:45 (who is a genius, just like me) – I know it’s a dead thread, but any friend of Stephen Maturin’s is a friend of mine.

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