Larry Moran at Sandwalk posted this link to a science questionnaire from The Toronto Star. Some of the questions (and answer options) are a bit badly worded, but overall it's a good test of general scientific literacy.I got them all right - 26/26 - but I had to deliberate long and hard, here and there, to work out what I was being asked.
hmmmm...
ReplyDeleteI only got 20.
My grand cop out is that i limited myself to not spending ages on the ones that I was stuck on.
Like you say, though, some of them are a bit vague and badly worded.
Fun, though!
Given some of the wordage, 20 is a good score Nobbly.
ReplyDeleteWow, considering I hated science, I scored 16! Better than I expected. (or else I'm a good guesser).
ReplyDeleteAnd at the bottom of the science class (just as I was at school) is me - with a score of 14
ReplyDeleteThanks...
ReplyDelete@Jonam - You are most welcome.
ReplyDelete@The others - Thanks for the responses, we are all above average. With hindsight, I wish I had done this post differently. Now I want to know what others got wrong.
Were they the same questions I struggled with, or different ones? For me, Q9 on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle is obvious. To other people it must seem like an alien concept.
Oh well, next time maybe :)
I crapped out on Heisenberg, Relativity, how old is the sun, how old is the earth, anda couple of others that I can't remember.
ReplyDeleteI got 17. not too bad
ReplyDeleteWell done Mark.
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