How much do you know about science topics?

[Matt Johnson]

35 on second test. If the accompanying photos hadn't giving away the answers, it would have been a bit lower #ICHEATED

-Matt

[Hudson Force]

I thought I might make it all the way, but I missed the last two!
'and Matt, it's never cheating to observe what is given!

[Ahneema]

Gordmay put the link for the other quiz! I just did about 40 questions!! I love this one too! I signed up!!

[S/V Illusion]

Originally Posted by GordMay

And yet, sadly, 84% of respondents didn't/couldn't.

And they vote too

[Group9]

I'll just go with the grades I got in high school and college, which were mediocre when it came to science and biology classes.

[Singularity]

Originally Posted by gamayun

Yup, I've always sucked at taking tests. I either overthink the question or miss a key point. I got 10 out of 11 in the quiz. I'm a biologist, too. The one with the temperature graphs (to me) showed both cities with a range close to each other, but a slightly larger range in one. Then, when I got to the answers, I see I had mistook the reading of "about 25" for one of the cities, was actually closer to 35. And I had looked at them several times over. Just an observation about test taking for some of us and how it's used (and abused) to test actual knowledge.

To all who suffer from this (i.e. all of us), consider the following conceptualization...it's a short-cut to genius. Assuming one does know the content being asked...and does know the right answer if the question was worded differently:

First, when you approach a question, consider that your attention is like a large spotlight illuminating the question. If it's not immediately apparent what core subject is being questioned, you automatically will narrow your spotlight so as to direct finer resolution (attention) to this or that detail. And the more time you take doing this....the more tight your light-beam focus is going "back and forth" over material. You end up with a laser beam of focus flashing "back and forth" over data...making you susceptible to missing data. If you've gotten to the laser point....you've lost. Rather, you've developed cognitive myopia such that you've effectively...largely...hypnotized yourself, just like chalk does to this chicken:

https://youtu.be/2wMOR31ktPE?t=1

Going "back and forth" with your eyes causes you to mesermize/hypnotize yourself (we all have varying degrees of susceptibility to this). Benjamin Franklin purportedly picked this up from Dr. Mesmer (mentalist) when Franklin was helping to investigate Mesmer. Modern psych generally refers to this state as cognitive dissonance; it's hell to explain the mechanism with any complexity as doing so....induces cognitive dissonance. The philosopher Hegel tried but "no one understands Hegel."

The trick is to learn to recognize "when your beam is becoming too narrow" and/or to practice "not zooming in." Test-taking strategies include skipping the question and coming back to it, hoping that the subconscious mind has determined the question/answer pair, or as the old saying goes "looking with fresh eyes" will allow re-conceptualization of the question in a manner that doesn't again end up in the laser-beam state.

I'm fairly dyslexic and don't think with words; it took me much of my life to understand that other people do think with words. Makes me wonder who has the learning disability...

[bumpman]

These are not genius questions and going by traditional academic standards, most Americans score in the D or F range. That's very sad and helps to explain the dilemma we're now in (and I don't just imply the pandemic). I wonder how the Finns or other Europeans would do.

[waterman46]

Originally Posted by S/V Illusion

If I can score 100%, anyone can

I and think most on this forum will score extremely high. But not anyone, according to the results. Very disheartening that so many low scores were present in the general population, even including some with college education.

But the race category in the results was biased. They should not show overall results by race, since some races have much lower education levels than others, and education is by far the greatest influence on those test results. If they want to show by race, then break it down by education levels within each race.

[Bill Seal]

A lot of questions in the second test are like history tests. It doesn't matter WHO, but WHAT If Bernouli hadn't formulated the relationship between velocity and pressure, somebody else would have, and airplanes would still fly and pitchers could still throw a curve.

[i-Zapp]

if it's not been said previously, it's not a very good test if the majority of people get all the answers right. i'm no rocket scientist and i did.

[GordMay]

Originally Posted by i-Zapp

if it's not been said previously (BTW: it has), it's not a very good test if the majority of people get all the answers right. i'm no rocket scientist and i did.

I didn't notice any questions on rocket science, in either test.

[waterman46]

Originally Posted by tkeithlu

.............wait for it...........


Welcome to the forum, Gord.


Nice quiz. Being a retired scientist, I would have been embarrassed to not get 11/11. Ditto to your score, but I think you meant that you did better than 84%. The question about deforestration bordered on tricky.

Gord wins the prize for the widest range of detailed, specific answers to posts.

Deforestation? But ignoring the typo in your message, what is tricky about 3 of the answers being just the reverse of what you would expect by common sense, and the right answer being obvious?

[waterman46]

Originally Posted by siamese

Nailed it. Woohoo.

Now, let's put this quiz on a SeaRay forum and see what happens

That definitely proves that cat owners and cat lovers are a breed unto themselves!

If you refer to acing first linked test, then Good On Yer! If you were referring to acing the second test, I'd say you are extremely well educated!
Now, given the pass/fail results of the general population on the first test, I worry about the future of our country even more.
We should require all candidates for state and federal public office to pass such a test with better than 90% score.

[smith8273]

I managed 11/11!

[Dooglas]

Well, I'm a PhD in biological/quantitative science so I would have been embarrassed if I hadn't aced the quiz. On the other hand, it is interesting that most of the regulars on this forum did quite well. Maybe you really do have to have something on the ball to be a successful cruiser.