I got 93.94 %; what's your score?

[nmissi]

An interesting civics exam online- I thought it was pretty evenhanded, a decent test of ones civic literacy...
http://www.isi.org/%28X%281%29S%285uzobn45f2h23l55qnf12cvu%29%29/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3B47-9675-41E0-9CF3-072BB31E2692&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Comments

[tbosky]

Thanks for linking this! 30 out of 33 correctly - 90.91 %

[alanna_dreams]

I got a 63.64% but I am absolutely abyssmal at economics...

[julietvalcouer]

87%--I think their answers on government response to deficit and what happens with specialization are outdated (at least, what they say is correct has never been correct in my lifetime) and for some reason I simply cannot remember the correct answer to the question about public good. (Is the right answer about citizens valuing? That's not a reasonable determinator for what is or is not valuable/correct use of funds. Then again someone who doesn't precisely believe in the existence of a collective public good may not be able to answer that question anyway...)

[econopodder]

100% -- woot! Of course, being an economist was quite handy on this one...

Jen: a 'public good' is something that is nonrivalrous and nonexcludable. That is, (a) me consuming more of it doesn't leave less to be consumed by you, and (b) I can't consume it without you being able to do so as well. It's not about how the good is paid for. The classic examples are national defense (I can't be protected by an army without you being protected, too, at least in the broad sense (meaning, we're not talking about defense of my particular street) and flood levees.

[jedihealer]

I scored 81.82 %, not surprised that I didn't get all the economics questions correct, but happy I did get all the historical type questions correct. Whew!