Do you know more about science and technology than the average American?

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#881425 20-Aug-2013 10:26

Not fair. You should compare with the geeks of America. Like Snowden gates Zuckerberg larry page ...

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#881451 20-Aug-2013 11:07

13/13 - nothing there that isn't in high school science/chem with the exception of fracking - which has been in the news enough lately.

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#881459 20-Aug-2013 11:14

13/13

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#881465 20-Aug-2013 11:22

13/13, very manageable.

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#881475 20-Aug-2013 11:37

12/13 pretty good for a high school drop out

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#881485 20-Aug-2013 11:41

100%

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#881497 20-Aug-2013 12:15

13/13 - but I struggled on the demographic one.

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#881510 20-Aug-2013 12:25

timmmay:
Klipspringer: The two I got wrong

- I thought Carbon dioxide made up most of the Earth's atmosphere. Really did not realize it was Nitrogen.
- "Nails rusting" a chemical reaction?

Nitrogen is inert, for us. CO2 would be a problem, global warming.

Rust = iron plus oxygen.

Rust is ferric oxide

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#881528 20-Aug-2013 12:54

tdgeek:
timmmay:
Klipspringer: The two I got wrong

- I thought Carbon dioxide made up most of the Earth's atmosphere. Really did not realize it was Nitrogen.
- "Nails rusting" a chemical reaction?

Nitrogen is inert, for us. CO2 would be a problem, global warming.

Rust = iron plus oxygen.

Rust is ferric oxide

Man I'm dumb .... I know all of that. LOL

My wife was painting her nails last night and that could be why I was thinking of finger nails. My first thought when I read the question was that it can't be finger nails, they don't rust! If they said something like iron rusting I would have got it.

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#881529 20-Aug-2013 12:55

13/13 for what it's worth. Interesting to see in the breakdown of results though that the younger half generally does better than the older except with issues that would be more prominent at other times or of more relevance in daily life, e.g. radioactivity and antibiotic resistance. Sort of counters some of the 'dumbing down' talk, though the test probably does tend towards topics relevant to the first half of the age range. Surprising how badly the majority did on the atmospheric composition question, especially with climate stories being fairly common in mainstream media.

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#881530 20-Aug-2013 12:55

13/13 - very interesting and somewhat worrying to see the bell curve :-s

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#881533 20-Aug-2013 13:11

13/13. Not wishing to be a SA but I thought it was very easy.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#881548 20-Aug-2013 13:33

12 of 13 thought the atmosphere was made up of nitrogen but went for carbon dioxide at the last moment silly me

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#881556 20-Aug-2013 13:55

13/13. Love science!

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#881557 20-Aug-2013 14:04

robjg63:
jeffnz: you guys are way to clever for this old guy I only got 9/13 but one was rushing, even so its ok I'm not a University educated person.

Hey! Dont use age as an excuse - You have had longer to mop up information - of course some does start to fall out of your head to make way for new stuff :-)

I got 13/13 and never went to university - I cant actually think what of this general knowledge would be specifically university taught anyway....

It was all said in jest, maybe I should have lied and said nothing or used emoticons my apologies for confusing you

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