I reckon you stopped because you feared you would not beat my score.
My score: 90.91%
No cheating!
God help youI can only assume I absorbed a lot of knowledge by a process of osmosis from reading all those FYM threads.
Among the 2,508 respondents, 164 say they have been elected to a government office at least once. This sub-sample of officeholders yields a startling result: elected officials score lower than the general public. Those who have held elective office earn an average score of 44% on the civic literacy test, which is five percentage points lower than the average score of 49% for those who have never been elected. It would be most interesting to explore whether this statistically significant result is maintained across larger samples of elected officials.
...In each of the following areas, for example, officeholders do more poorly than non-officeholders:
•Seventy-nine percent of those who have been elected to government office do not know the Bill of Rights expressly prohibits establishing an official religion for the U.S.
•Thirty percent do not know that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are the inalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence.
•Twenty-seven percent cannot name even one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment.
•Forty-three percent do not know what the Electoral College does. One in five thinks it either “trains those aspiring for higher political office” or “was established to supervise the first televised presidential debates.”
•Fifty-four percent do not know the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. Thirty-nine percent think that power belongs to the president, and 10% think it belongs to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
•Only 32% can properly define the free enterprise system, and only 41% can identify business profit as “revenue minus expenses.”
Results
You answered 31 out of 33 correctly — 93.94 %
If you have any comments or questions about the quiz, please email americancivicliteracy@isi.org.
You can consult the following table to see how citizens and elected officials scored on each question.
me too!Got bored on 3rd page
31/33. 93.94%
The questions that got me were about government taxes equaling government spending and the one about the fiscal policy the U.S. government has followed during a recession.
I'm surprised that the average score was so low. Most of the questions were not that difficult.
^Hey, INDY, how'd you like the show? I kept looking around for "conservative-looking" guys, wondering. . .could that be INDY500?
Did ya see the guy lecturing the folks at the Amnesty International booth on American Exceptionalism?
Didn't get One Tree Hill in 1987 but I've heard it now. I read your review and we agree 100%
You answered 22 out of 33 correctly — 66.67 %
and five of those that i got wrong were ones i originally had the right answer checked, and went back and changed it. fail.
oh, fuck. that's awful. don't even get me started on changing answers. a bastard to me throughout high school. the best thing about university was pretty much every exam i took needed essay answers, so changing something wasn't really an option.Ugh. If there is one thing that I learned as student, it was not to go back and change answers. More often than not the changes haunted me more than the originals would have. I missed being a National Merit Scholar because I changed an answer.