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Test Your News IQ (Pew Research) (Original Post) pokerfan Sep 2013 OP
Oops! only 11. Missed "what do the shaded states have in common" and ... JHB Sep 2013 #1
Missed one--the population graph pinboy3niner Sep 2013 #2
11 out of 13. longship Sep 2013 #3
I got 11. I missed the population graph and a "Who is this?". Arkansas Granny Sep 2013 #4
12 out of 13 chimpymustgo Sep 2013 #5
13 of 13 Lochloosa Sep 2013 #6
12 of 13 here, missed the DJIA graph. n/t Still Sensible Sep 2013 #7
100% rurallib Sep 2013 #8
12 of 13, didn't recognize Marissa Mayer. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2013 #9
i recalled that a big deal was made of her youth and prettiness so got that 1 right without Liberal_in_LA Sep 2013 #25
12 of 13 boguspotus Sep 2013 #30
12 of 13. I missed the Marissa Meyer MineralMan Sep 2013 #10
Way too easy. wild bird Sep 2013 #11
12/13 treestar Sep 2013 #12
11 our of 13 Le Taz Hot Sep 2013 #13
11 out of 13 avebury Sep 2013 #14
12 out of 13, didnt get the stock one right. Crimson76 Sep 2013 #15
13 of 13 correct....but prairierose Sep 2013 #16
Those who did less well than us xfundy Sep 2013 #27
thanks...great questions ! Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2013 #17
12-13…. changed answer on Dow Jones Average darn it. KittyWampus Sep 2013 #18
12 of 13 I missed the Dow question NightWatcher Sep 2013 #19
11 of 13. Missed Marissa Mayer and the Dow chart. nt Zorra Sep 2013 #20
11 bigwillq Sep 2013 #21
12/13... WorseBeforeBetter Sep 2013 #22
11 of 13 Blue_In_AK Sep 2013 #23
11 of 13, missed the states one and the middle east country one Liberal_in_LA Sep 2013 #24
I missed all of them! n-t Logical Sep 2013 #26
11 of 13 sweetloukillbot Sep 2013 #28
I missed one gopiscrap Sep 2013 #29
13/13...Finally 2naSalit Sep 2013 #31
10 of 13 Scootaloo Sep 2013 #32
11 of 13 sakabatou Sep 2013 #33
To my surprise: 11 of 13 ManiacJoe Sep 2013 #34
Aced it! nt bklyncowgirl Sep 2013 #35
12/13... Shame on me for not recognizing the CEO of Yahoo! Woof_Woof Sep 2013 #36
I'll happily take my 96% Buns_of_Fire Sep 2013 #37
13/13 Stinky The Clown Sep 2013 #38
11 out of 13 better than 91% davidpdx Sep 2013 #39
13 0f 13 Generic Brad Sep 2013 #40
Got 10 of 13. Tseko Sep 2013 #41
I answered them all correctly. I didn't "know" a couple but could figure them out Orangepeel Sep 2013 #42

JHB

(37,161 posts)
1. Oops! only 11. Missed "what do the shaded states have in common" and ...
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 03:01 PM
Sep 2013

... and the "who's picture is this?" involving the four women.

 

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
25. i recalled that a big deal was made of her youth and prettiness so got that 1 right without
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 12:44 AM
Sep 2013

Recognizing her face

MineralMan

(146,317 posts)
10. 12 of 13. I missed the Marissa Meyer
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 03:38 PM
Sep 2013

question. I don't feel too stupid about that one. I'll take a 96th percentile result.

 

wild bird

(421 posts)
11. Way too easy.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 03:50 PM
Sep 2013
You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly. You scored better than 99% of the public and the same as 1%.

avebury

(10,952 posts)
14. 11 out of 13
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 04:06 PM
Sep 2013

Not bad considering the fact that I really don't pay much attention to the news anymore.

xfundy

(5,105 posts)
27. Those who did less well than us
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 01:05 AM
Sep 2013

Shall be our slaves! Bwaa Haa Haa! What shall we do first? Continue to have them shop at Mal*Wart?

DONE!

I command they next eat at McD's, BK, Christ Fil-A, or the deli at any major grocery store hopped up with chemicals, which is like all of them.

Oh, and Taco Bell!

Wish I'd thought to buy stock in any of those before I decided to turn into an evil bastard. Live 'n learn. Or not.

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
18. 12-13…. changed answer on Dow Jones Average darn it.
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 10:25 PM
Sep 2013

You scored better than 96% of the public, below 1% and the same as 3%.

sweetloukillbot

(11,030 posts)
28. 11 of 13
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 01:08 AM
Sep 2013

Missed Marissa Meyer and the population graph. I overthought the pop. graph - my first guess was Nigeria, then I noticed there was no one in the highest age brackets which made me think Israel since it's a younger nation...

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
32. 10 of 13
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 03:25 AM
Sep 2013

I don't know who the yahoo CEO is (nor do I care), who the Florida Senators are (again, don't care!) and since I didn't think maryland had allowed same-sex marriage, I went with the higher than federal minimum wage answer.

Oops.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,183 posts)
37. I'll happily take my 96%
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 07:14 AM
Sep 2013

I couldn't care less about the DJIA any more, but the two bonus questions about my gender and age (I got them both right) pulled up my average.

Tseko

(26 posts)
41. Got 10 of 13.
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 09:31 AM
Sep 2013

Got the Dow Jones trend wrong, the percentage of women in Congress wrong and didn't recognize Marissa Mayer.

But I think I went pretty well overall.

Orangepeel

(13,933 posts)
42. I answered them all correctly. I didn't "know" a couple but could figure them out
Sat Sep 7, 2013, 09:55 AM
Sep 2013

If I'd been shown a picture of the CEO of Yahoo and asked to come up with a name, I'd never have been able to. But I knew it wasn't Kathleen Sebelius or Wendy Davis, and I figured the "official" picture of a skier would show her doing something.

To be honest, I didn't even know Nigeria was in the news much lately. But of the countries listed, it was the only one that would have so many people die so young. .

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