freecounterpoint: AI's Harvard seniors averaged 69.56%

Sunday, November 23, 2008

AI's Harvard seniors averaged 69.56%

Can you do better? Pepe, I'll try to find you a similar quiz about the Soviet Union.

15 comments:

Pepe le Pew said...: You answered 21 out of 33 correctly — 63.64 %

ouch; 11/23/2008 10:18 AM
Tecumseh said...: Read the Constitution, Pepe. That may help you improve your score.; 11/23/2008 10:37 AM
The Darkroom said...: You think ?

13) Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas would concur that:

17) Sputnik was the name given to the first:

25) Free enterprise or capitalism exists insofar as:

26) Business profit is:

27) Free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning because:

28) A progressive tax:

etc...; 11/23/2008 11:35 AM
Mr roT said...: Pepe, how come you write You answered.

So, AI, how'd you do?

I got one wrong. Susan B Anth. Stupid me. I forgot the identity politics version of historiography in which something gets done for somebody implies there was someone in that group that did the real fighting.

Think about the black civil war soldiers that in coming years will end up decisive in that war.

I mixed her up with Harriet Tubman.; 11/23/2008 12:28 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: "You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 %"

There was an Anti-Federalist gap in my knowledge. That's what I get for being an Anti-anti-Federalist.

As for Le Pew's Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas gap, I'm shocked, shocked. But, hey, Pepe did fairly close to the Harvard standard. He too could have flushed with Crimson Pride.; 11/23/2008 12:29 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: JJ, how could you be so dull as to confuse Susan with Harriet. The first had a putative dollar coin minted in her honor. The second almost had a putative VTOF flying in her honor. For shame.
Now if those Anti-Federalists come huntin' for me, tell 'em I'm here with Hamilton and Adams.; 11/23/2008 12:33 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Of course, if depressingly so:

"Of the 2,508 People surveyed, 164 say they have held an elected government office at least once in their life. Their average score on the civic literacy test is 44%, compared to 49% for those who have not held an elected office. Officeholders are less likely than other respondents to correctly answer 29 of the 33 test questions."; 11/23/2008 12:40 PM
Tecumseh said...: I answered about half the questions, but then got bored, and closed the window. Test is too long for my attention span.; 11/23/2008 1:33 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Gonna go conduct an oral history interview with a WWII airforce bomber crewman this Sunday afternoon. We share the same North Dakota state, the same Svenska ancestry, but obviously are of different generations. He dropped bombs over Europe some years ago. I'll distill the good parts and try to put something non-ideological (hence, meaningful) together to share with FCP.; 11/23/2008 2:02 PM
Mr roT said...: Not enough oomph for AI.; 11/23/2008 2:37 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: try to put something non-ideological (hence, meaningful) together to share with FCP.

you're a brave man mft; 11/23/2008 3:45 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: Putting it in perspective, I am doing just great.; 11/23/2008 4:04 PM
Mr roT said...: Now that Obama took the test, it's a lot easier to beat the pols.; 11/23/2008 4:20 PM
Tecumseh said...: Among the questions asked of some 2,500 people who were randomly selected to take the test, including "self-identified elected officials," was one which asked respondents to "name two countries that were our enemies during World War II."
Sixty-nine percent of respondents correctly identified Germany and Japan. Among the incorrect answers were Britain, China, Russia, Canada, Mexico and Spain.

Yes, we fought pitched battles with the Brits, up there in Canada, back in 1942. And then the perfidious Pancho Villa attacked us from the South, marching towards Dallas in the famed Bataan March. Now, what did those Spaniards do? Ah, yes, they crossed the waters on them galleons, and attacked Boca Raton. This was a tough war.; 11/23/2008 7:08 PM
Mr roT said...: Surrounded! We're surrounded!; 11/23/2008 8:58 PM