Are you scientifically literate?
 

Take this quiz to find out.

I took it, my score and my shame are posted below. I could have answered two of the eight I missed correctly, but I moved too quickly. Oops. Well, I deserve the score I got.

Be aware, it's kind of a long test, fifty questions. I took about ten minutes to complete it. It covers physics, biology, history, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, geometry, etc. I really liked it, I hope you like it too.

Are you scientifically literate?

My results:

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I gave up after question 20 when I realized I had way more wrong answers than right.

Awwww.... :(

37 correct for me.

29 correct.

And, in fairness quite a few of those I only got right because of the clues about Greek and Latin terms.

Apparently, I am scientifically illiterate. I depend on google for my literacy :rolleyes:

slipped up on mechanics, biology & meteorology

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Thanks BigV for posting

ETA:
So did I. ;o)

You're welcome, and very impressive performance. You are indeed literate.

I've tried twice, and gotten kicked off at question 42.:sniff:

= the meaning of life, the universe, and everything

Very significant!

I'm on question 2, and I already have gotten half wrong. Not looking good.

I really thought I would do better, but, armed with only a high school education, during which I paid absolutely no attention whatsoever, I'm actually pretty happy with my score.

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5/6 so far.
If I start getting lots wrong (which I almost certainly will - you know what my maths like after all) then I will give up. I don't mind getting questions wrong - I learn by my mistakes. But I don't want to wait around to be served up humiliation.

33/50 correct. I have math issues.

Am up to 20/34.
Might give up soon.

At least those I've known I've known... well - three lucky guesses.
I now know I am not scientifically literate. But then I knew that.
I reckon I score higer than the general public. But then the average Briton can't name the Deputy Prime Minister or identify the various seas/ oceans around this country.

I also know I am ridiculously impatient.
But again, I knew that anyway.

I might rewatch an episode of No Heroics and keep flicking back to Slow-Science-Slow-I-Don't-Know-In-A-Million-Years-Quiz. One of them will make me feel smiley and comforted at least.

ETA - weary of it now.
21/37.

slow is strange... I just went to the link and retook the first five or six questions, no lag, no delay beyond my own internet connection latency... and plenty fast enough. I did think it was kinda awkward to have to click twice for each question. But I believe that was so you'd have a chance to review your answer and compare it to the right answer. Hopefully they were the same.

32 with some really good guesses.

At first I was really enjoying revisiting high school biology and chemistry, but then the physics question came around. And I need to bone up on my planetary trivia.

I had the same slowness problem as Sundae. We're talking a good 30 seconds between each answer result and each new question. I'd only missed 1 up to question 24, but it just took too damn long.

We're tied. A few questions that were 50/50 I got wrong and I got a few wild ass guesses right. For the dinosaur question, I talked myself out of the right answer.:mad2:

I'm unlitterate as well.:(

(33 of 50 correct)
Don't ask again - I guessed on so frikkin many of them...
Why do I feel like I was back in college for the last hour.

couldn't even get it to move on from question 1.... maybe heavy traffic right now? might try again tomorrow, too tired to be patient.

Only 40.

37, drunk at 2:30 AM. three or four dumb mistakes I woulda gotten if I wasn't trying to go fast - D'OH moments as soon as I hit submit, sorta things. Still, 37 out of 50... that's a passing grade at least!

I got 40 out of 50.

But I'm annoyed with myself. I helped my son study for a weather science test last night, and I spent 2-3 minutes going over the clouds with him. I am embarrassed to say I got the cloud question wrong this morning, when we had gone over it just last night. He would have gotten it correct, and he's in 3rd grade. :blush:

:D

Life instills a lot of data, but doesn't always include how to take the test !
Click the Continue button again ;)

My grandkids love it when I screw up the ordering at the McD's drive-thru.

No, I was home when I tried it, and I clicked what was supposed to be clicked when it was supposed to be clicked. Since my home comp sucks, I figured that was the problem. I quit after 2 questions, as I am not ready for a lifetime committment.

Now I'll try it from work but if it's still really slow I won't waste my entire lunch hour on it.

Well, it's faster than at home, but I still feel like I'm waiting for Regis or Meredith to tell me if I'm right or wrong.

Otherwise, it would be fun to take.

I'm quitting with 10 of 17 correct. I was on the road to suck anyway. ;)

45 / 50 (Doffs cap to Scriven)

I got wrong the ones on: (MILD SPOILER ALERT)
The name of the trans-Plutonic object
The value of e
The cell division one (never into biology)
Who h was named after
The cloud one.

Of those I got right, there were two where I did an instinctive choice between three options, and six where I chose from two options. A bit of luck, a bit of mmmmyeahIthinkso...

Latin and Greek helped a bit, and I liked the way almost every question offered a few different ways to the answer, such as which element, atomic number XX, named after the Greek YYY, is commonly used in ZZZZ. Theoretical, literary or practical knowledge can get you there.

Loved the first option for the age of the earth. :D