Oh dear me

Feb. 22nd, 2012 02:10 pm
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I consider it embarrassing that I only got 40/50 on the CSM Science Quiz: http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1209/Are-you-scientifically-literate-Take-our-quiz/

Two were "I am bad at math" mistakes. One was just a mis-click. A couple were hang-my-head-in-shame.

Date: 2012-02-22 07:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pierceheart.livejournal.com
I got 36.

I was never a hard science person, nor a math person.

Date: 2012-02-22 08:02 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] inahandbasket
76%, a couple of which were stupid mistakes I knew better on.
I was never very good with biology. :)

Date: 2012-02-22 08:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gentlescholar.livejournal.com
I missed one. I thought "-nimbus" meant "in shadow" and dithered between the right answer and the one I picked.
But I need to know all that sort of thing every day for work, so I'd have been horrified if I'd missed 3.

Date: 2012-02-22 08:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gentlescholar.livejournal.com
And really, I was shaky on about 6 more except that they usually gave two clues to the answer; I got by on etymology for some of those.

Date: 2012-02-23 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marius23.livejournal.com
Yes, etymology is your friend!

Date: 2012-02-23 12:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vibrantabyss.livejournal.com
Viva xkcd! (1012)

Date: 2012-02-23 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marius23.livejournal.com
48. I confused mu and zeta and I forgot what -nimbus meant. The movie Gattaca helped confirm my answer to one of the questions. :-) I've always been good a multiple choice questions.

Date: 2012-02-23 04:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asciikitty.livejournal.com
Yeah, I determined that I'm not terribly science literate, but I do know my classical Greek.

My shower curtain *and* my favorite tee-shirt for sleeping are periodic tables. I should have gotten all of those right and didn't. Must study more.

Date: 2012-02-23 07:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fordprfct.livejournal.com
That was fun. Thank you.

45/50

Two of them I am annoyed with myself at missing. But I figure that that makes up for the ones where I got by on etymology and process of elimination.

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