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2013/12/25 06:29:18
Subject: Science saavy?
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Fate-Controlling Farseer
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http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/
Take the test, and then marvel in the publics stupidity (or hide in shame).
I scored a 100%, which seems to put me in the top 7%.
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2013/12/25 06:54:54
Subject: Science saavy?
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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I only missed "fracking". Feth me.
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2013/12/25 07:19:34
Subject: Science saavy?
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Avatar of the Bloody-Handed God
Inside your mind, corrupting the pathways
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100% though the question on drug trials could have been either answer depending if there was lots of control and or/gold standard treatment data already... plus there are plenty of times in drug trials where you can't trial against "no treatment" as you have to treat patients who are ill using existing treatments 
That was the only question it took more than about 2 seconds to answer.
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2013/12/25 07:37:49
Subject: Science saavy?
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Hangin' with Gork & Mork
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100% as well.
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
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2013/12/25 07:42:31
Subject: Science saavy?
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Liche Priest Hierophant
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I too got 100%
Pretty good for an 'ignorant' teenager entering my final year of school...
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2013/12/25 07:43:36
Subject: Science saavy?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Shouldn't that be "Frack me"?
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2013/12/25 07:45:50
Subject: Science saavy?
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Avatar of the Bloody-Handed God
Inside your mind, corrupting the pathways
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Depends if you are in 40k or BSG 
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2013/12/25 08:04:08
Subject: Re:Science saavy?
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Fixture of Dakka
Kamloops, BC
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12/13 the one I got wrong on was the one about the most abundant element in the atmosphere thought it was hydrogen turns out it's nitrogen.
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2013/12/25 08:10:41
Subject: Science saavy?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
Dundee, Scotland/Dharahn, Saudi Arabia
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100%.
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If the thought of something makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not allowed to do it.
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2013/12/25 08:13:18
Subject: Re:Science saavy?
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Ultramarine Librarian with Freaky Familiar
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11/13. I had a feeling Nitrogen was the most abundant gas in the atmosphere... should've gone with my gut.
I also never knew that "Fracking" was an actual process. Learn something everyday.
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2013/12/25 09:33:15
Subject: Science saavy?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Got 11/13. I too messed the atmosphere one and also the laser one. Not even sure what I put down for it.
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2013/12/25 09:37:59
Subject: Science saavy?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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It would've been a bad sign for my degree if I hadn't gotten 100%.
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2013/12/25 09:45:00
Subject: Science saavy?
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Fate-Controlling Farseer
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 Snrub wrote:Got 11/13. I too messed the atmosphere one and also the laser one. Not even sure what I put down for it.
Well the laser one was a simple true or false, so I think it should be pretty clear what you put down for that one.
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2013/12/25 10:29:13
Subject: Re:Science saavy?
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Martial Arts Fiday
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 Cheesecat wrote:12/13 the one I got wrong on was the one about the most abundant element in the atmosphere thought it was hydrogen turns out it's nitrogen.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element overall. Nitrogen is the most abundant in our atmosphere.
100% here.
If you missed the Fracking one then you don't really watch the news much lately. Apparently it's the worst thing for the environment since sliced atoms.
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2013/12/25 10:55:15
Subject: Science saavy?
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Fixture of Dakka
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 djones520 wrote: Snrub wrote:Got 11/13. I too messed the atmosphere one and also the laser one. Not even sure what I put down for it.
Well the laser one was a simple true or false, so I think it should be pretty clear what you put down for that one.
Laser wasn't a true or false was it? It was a 4 answer one. I'm sure it was.
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2013/12/25 10:58:13
Subject: Science saavy?
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Dakka Veteran
Anime High School
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Females scored lower in every question except the biology questions. Funny.
100% here.
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2013/12/25 11:11:43
Subject: Science saavy?
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Fate-Controlling Farseer
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Snrub wrote: djones520 wrote: Snrub wrote:Got 11/13. I too messed the atmosphere one and also the laser one. Not even sure what I put down for it.
Well the laser one was a simple true or false, so I think it should be pretty clear what you put down for that one.
Laser wasn't a true or false was it? It was a 4 answer one. I'm sure it was.
Pretty sure it was a T or F. Yep just went back and checked again. T or F. Automatically Appended Next Post:  SlaveToDorkness wrote: Cheesecat wrote:12/13 the one I got wrong on was the one about the most abundant element in the atmosphere thought it was hydrogen turns out it's nitrogen.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element overall. Nitrogen is the most abundant in our atmosphere.
100% here.
If you missed the Fracking one then you don't really watch the news much lately. Apparently it's the worst thing for the environment since sliced atoms.
Brought to you by the people who brought you global cooling, I mean warming, I mean cooling, I mean warming, I mean change.
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2013/12/25 11:28:08
Subject: Science saavy?
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Fixture of Dakka
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djones520 wrote:Pretty sure it was a T or F. Yep just went back and checked again. T or F.
Aww man. Stupid lasers...
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2013/12/25 12:03:47
Subject: Science saavy?
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Camouflaged Zero
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Yay, 100%.
The age and education breakdown is interesting. I'd like to see the results with variance for a larger sample.
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2013/12/25 12:32:42
Subject: Re:Science saavy?
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Last Remaining Whole C'Tan
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12/13; i blew the electron/atom question.
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2013/12/25 12:47:52
Subject: Science saavy?
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Oberstleutnant
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djones520 wrote:
Brought to you by the people who brought you global cooling, I mean warming, I mean cooling, I mean warming, I mean change.
Some parts of the world will cool while others will warm so climate change is the most accurate description. Changing the nonclemature to better reflect the effect is hardly a sign of weakness.
100% for myself, I'm in the top 7%, yay.
I'm suprised that so many people got the electron and laser questions wrong, although I think the latter may well be a case of RTFQ rather than ignorance.
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The prefect example of someone missing the point.
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Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
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2013/12/25 13:07:14
Subject: Science saavy?
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Stone Bonkers Fabricator General
We'll find out soon enough eh.
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djones520 wrote: Snrub wrote: djones520 wrote: Snrub wrote:Got 11/13. I too messed the atmosphere one and also the laser one. Not even sure what I put down for it.
Well the laser one was a simple true or false, so I think it should be pretty clear what you put down for that one.
Laser wasn't a true or false was it? It was a 4 answer one. I'm sure it was.
Pretty sure it was a T or F. Yep just went back and checked again. T or F.
Automatically Appended Next Post:
SlaveToDorkness wrote: Cheesecat wrote:12/13 the one I got wrong on was the one about the most abundant element in the atmosphere thought it was hydrogen turns out it's nitrogen.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element overall. Nitrogen is the most abundant in our atmosphere.
100% here.
If you missed the Fracking one then you don't really watch the news much lately. Apparently it's the worst thing for the environment since sliced atoms.
Brought to you by the people who brought you global cooling, I mean warming, I mean cooling, I mean warming, I mean change.
You mean the sensationalist media? Because if you look at the actual scientific literature it's been "climate change" and less frequently "global warming" since the 70's, and even as far back as the 50's papers proposing/asserting a cooling trend were a very modest minority. And yes, a process which releases a substantial proportion of the methane gas it's attempting to extract into the atmosphere(methane is a far more effective greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, those "worst case scenarios" you read about it aforementioned sensationalist press about huge sea level rises etc which are dismissed as madness are predicated on the very possible but still technically speculative scenario that we release enough CO2 into the atmosphere to raise the temperature enough to melt large swathes of permafrost in the northern hemisphere, which would release huge amounts of methane and lead to a drastic and much more rapid feedback loop), and which can force various industrial chemicals as well as further amounts of methane into the water table, that is a process that is pretty bad for the environment, and for any humans who happen to get their drinking water from said water table.
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2013/12/25 14:24:39
Subject: Science saavy?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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100%
I could've taken this in the middle of High School (UK) and only missed out on the 'fracking' question (since the process has only really become commonplace over the last few years).
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2013/12/25 14:51:33
Subject: Science saavy?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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This is the only one that made me struggle thinking about. The atmosphere one almost got me too but I ended scoring 13 out of 13.
My wife got 11 out of 13 lol I'll forever mock her for this muwahahaha.
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2013/12/25 15:08:02
Subject: Re:Science saavy?
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Kid_Kyoto
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I got 13/13. I thought at first I was going to embarrass myself, but those questions were all pretty easy, which makes it that much more disturbing that people would score so lowly.
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2013/12/25 15:21:51
Subject: Science saavy?
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Blood Angel Captain Wracked with Visions
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13/13. I was pleasantly surprised with that
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2013/12/25 15:25:23
Subject: Re:Science saavy?
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Crazed Bloodkine
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I was expecting 8/13 at best, as I wasn't confident in a few answers, but got all 13.
Look out, Stephen Hawking! I'm gonna terk ur jerb.
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2013/12/25 15:27:36
Subject: Science saavy?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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The demographic breakdown at the end is kind of interesting It worries me quite a bit that only ~60% of college graduates got the electron and laser question correct. I wonder if that is a case of people not reading the question or actual lack of knowledge about said issue.
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2013/12/25 15:28:24
Subject: Re:Science saavy?
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Nihilistic Necron Lord
The best State-Texas
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13/13, but I just made an educated guess at the carbon dioxide causing heating question.
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2013/12/25 16:10:31
Subject: Science saavy?
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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I'm suspicious of their survey to be honest, surely most people could answer the majority of these questions correctly?
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