Damn...
I was expecting a better result on this quiz, none of the questions were all that hard and there weren't any I thought I'd missed. Maybe I overthought some of the obvious "True/False" questions, like the one about the Earth's core being really hot.
Your result for The Public Understanding of Scientific Terms and Concepts Test...
77% Understanding!
You scored 77% Understanding.
According to the following website: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind04/c7/fig07-06.htm , the average score of the United States public is about a 63% and of the European public is about 60% on the ORIGINAL questions asked, which are very similar to the ones on this test.
I, however, had changed some of the questions on this so I no longer can compare the results to the original results on the previously provided website. Basically, most of this stuff (save for one word I used that a lot of people seem not to know) is pretty much common knowledge and if you feel you've done extremely poorly on this, then maybe you ought to go do a bit of research and learn some sciencey things!
If you did well (let me remind you...i'm letting you set your own standards for whatever you think well may be..i personally thing above a 94% is doing well), then good job! I applaud you! You might be normal after all hehe. Anyway, have an excellent day and thank you for taking this test!
(Note: the previously provided website is where the questions for this test were basically provided, though, you will find I made a few modifications. The answers are on there too.)
Take The Public Understanding of Scientific Terms and Concepts Test at HelloQuizzy
Ah well. I do think the general lack of scientific knowledge and interest in our society is pretty pathetic, actually, and this coming from an Arts Major. Working in a bookstore as I do, it's frustrating to see how many really fascinating, cutting-edge science books (at the moment, for example, I'm reading The Brain That Changes Itself and really enjoying it) there are these days...and how so many of these titles are relatively ignored in favour of flakey New Age books about communing with Angels and other shallow self-help/religious books. These days, what I like about Science is the way that it's all about material, observable reality. What really soured me on Arts as they're studied in Academia was the lack of connection to reality of any kind a lot of the time "Post-Modern" Academic Theory is basically a narcissistic dog chasing its' own tail and apparently loving it. Even History as it's taught in many university classes is pretty much divorced from the facts of what really happened in favour of pretentious talk of Historical Theory and Metanarratives. Science, by contrast, strips us of self-absorption and brings us back to sober, beautiful reality. More on this soon as my interest in Science and related topics (expect a rant about Creationism vs. Evolution at some point) increases but for right now it's late, I'm tired from a busy weekend, and I get to work the stat tomorrow (hey, time-and-a-half pay ain't bad). Night kids.
Your result for The Public Understanding of Scientific Terms and Concepts Test...
77% Understanding!
You scored 77% Understanding.
According to the following website: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind04/c7/fig07-06.htm , the average score of the United States public is about a 63% and of the European public is about 60% on the ORIGINAL questions asked, which are very similar to the ones on this test.
I, however, had changed some of the questions on this so I no longer can compare the results to the original results on the previously provided website. Basically, most of this stuff (save for one word I used that a lot of people seem not to know) is pretty much common knowledge and if you feel you've done extremely poorly on this, then maybe you ought to go do a bit of research and learn some sciencey things!
If you did well (let me remind you...i'm letting you set your own standards for whatever you think well may be..i personally thing above a 94% is doing well), then good job! I applaud you! You might be normal after all hehe. Anyway, have an excellent day and thank you for taking this test!
(Note: the previously provided website is where the questions for this test were basically provided, though, you will find I made a few modifications. The answers are on there too.)
Take The Public Understanding of Scientific Terms and Concepts Test at HelloQuizzy
Ah well. I do think the general lack of scientific knowledge and interest in our society is pretty pathetic, actually, and this coming from an Arts Major. Working in a bookstore as I do, it's frustrating to see how many really fascinating, cutting-edge science books (at the moment, for example, I'm reading The Brain That Changes Itself and really enjoying it) there are these days...and how so many of these titles are relatively ignored in favour of flakey New Age books about communing with Angels and other shallow self-help/religious books. These days, what I like about Science is the way that it's all about material, observable reality. What really soured me on Arts as they're studied in Academia was the lack of connection to reality of any kind a lot of the time "Post-Modern" Academic Theory is basically a narcissistic dog chasing its' own tail and apparently loving it. Even History as it's taught in many university classes is pretty much divorced from the facts of what really happened in favour of pretentious talk of Historical Theory and Metanarratives. Science, by contrast, strips us of self-absorption and brings us back to sober, beautiful reality. More on this soon as my interest in Science and related topics (expect a rant about Creationism vs. Evolution at some point) increases but for right now it's late, I'm tired from a busy weekend, and I get to work the stat tomorrow (hey, time-and-a-half pay ain't bad). Night kids.